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Rate of postdischarge complications for surgical patients increased from 44.6 to 56.5 percent during the same time period

Use of fecal occult blood test up during pandemic; more than half of respondents willing to do at-home FOBT in lieu of colonoscopy

Patients receiving systemic therapy, surgery, and radiation have survival advantage over systemic therapy alone

Distribution of Lung-RADS results did not differ for lung cancer screenings with telemedicine versus in-person visit

Relative to those with dip in nighttime SBP, nondippers, reverse dippers have higher prevalence of cardiac autonomic neuropathy

Thirty-four percent of those taking antihypertensive medications had hypertension

Interventions, including phoning pharmacies and enabling CancelRX in electronic medical records, may reduce risk for medication safety events

30-day mortality rate increased fivefold in men versus women; overall mortality rate increased 2.7-fold

Adjusted odds ratio for type 2 diabetes further reduced for those with more than eight years of alendronate use

Those with lowest insulin resistance, as measured by highest estimated glucose disposal rate, had lowest risk for stroke, death