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Medical education does not equip students to provide high-quality

Medical Students Not Ready to Provide Nutritional Care

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Findings consistent regardless of country of training, year of medical education
A frailty assessment as part of liver transplant evaluation may help identify transplant candidates at higher risk for death

Frailty Assessment May Aid Liver Transplant Evaluation

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Frailty assessment may help identify patients at higher risk for death on the wait-list
Hysterectomy

Hysterectomy Tied to Long-Term Risk for Depression, Anxiety

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Findings particularly strong with hysterectomy at younger age, even with ovarian conservation
In women with mixed urinary incontinence

Physical Therapy and Surgery Reduce Mixed Urinary Incontinence Symptoms

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However, reduction in symptoms from addition of physical therapy may not be clinically important
In women with mixed urinary incontinence

Physical Therapy and Surgery Reduce Mixed Urinary Incontinence Symptoms

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However, reduction in symptoms from addition of physical therapy may not be clinically important
Delaying time to treatment initiation beyond 60 days is associated with decreased overall survival and increased head and neck cancer recurrence

Delaying Treatment Worsens Head, Neck Cancer Outcomes

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Findings show that survival declines, recurrence increases with delays of more than 60 days
There was an increase in Medicaid-covered preemptive kidney transplants among patients with end-stage renal disease living in Medicaid expansion states versus nonexpansion states

Medicaid Expansion Increases Access to Kidney Transplants

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Increases in Medicaid-covered preemptive kidney transplants greater in Medicaid expansion states
Certain factors may help clinicians identify which patients are more likely to have greater opioid use in the first month after major surgery

Patient Factors May Predict Opioid Use After Discharge

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Certain factors, such as anxiety, associated with greater opioid use in the month after major surgery
A 2011 U.S. Food and Drug Administration safety communication correlated with a significant decline in transvaginal mesh use for treatment of apical prolapse

2011 FDA Safety Message Tied to Drop in Transvaginal Mesh Use

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Proportion of apical procedures using transvaginal mesh decreased in year after safety communication
Cancer survival is continuing to increase across high-income countries

Cancer Survival Increasing in High-Income Countries

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International disparities observed, with survival generally higher in Australia, Canada, and Norway