Algorithms, or computer-implementable instructions to perform specific tasks, are available for clinical use, including complex artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms and simple rule-based algorithms.
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To what extent have efforts to change clinician habits worked, when it comes to low-value carotid imaging? We interviewed Dr. Tim Anderson, co-author of a recent study on the topic, to find out more.
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Both CMS and healthcare providers are using COVID-19 as an excuse to cut back on their experiments in value-based care, a severe blow to those hoping the pandemic would catalyze badly needed change.
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A pre–post design was used to assess changes in opioid use, length of stay, and costs among all patients undergoing cesarean delivery before and after implementation of an evidence-based ERAS pathway for the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative management of patients beginning December 2018.
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People erroneously think that they are being sent to physicians who will help them die.
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"That was the title of a seminar presentation I made for the Georgetown University Health and the Public Interest program last week. It was delivered via Zoom for the graduate students in the program and for a broader Zoom audience beyond the University."
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An intervention to reduce antibiotic treatment for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) at a Toronto hospital was safe and associated with reduced exposure to unnecessary antibiotics, Canadian researchers reported this week in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
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Speeding the process could save thousands of lives, but some say it might also make it easier for the White House to push regulators to clear an unproven vaccine before Election Day.
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A suite of low-value care projects from researchers Adam Elshaug and Kelsey Chalmers.
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This Teachable Moment describes a woman in her 40s with a medical history of recurrent ear infections who presented to the emergency department with one day of left ear pain, nausea, and vomiting.
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Randomized trials of psychotherapy often include "spin" to look more positive and use unethical research practices like outcome switching.
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Faced with skyrocketing health insurance premiums, Texans are turning to a growing niche of primary care to cover their medical needs during the pandemic.
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The FDA's about-face on emergency approval of convalescent plasma raises questions about the level of evidence we need for Covid-19 treatments, and the role of politics in these decisions.
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You’d need a pretty big, stiff broom to sweep away all of the hype dished out by the Trump Administration as it announced an Emergency Use Authorization for convalescent plasma – the liquid component of blood that may be tapped for disease-fighting antibodies from people who’ve been infected with COVID-19.
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The upheaval in the provision of routine health care caused by the Covid-19 pandemic offers an unprecedented opportunity to reduce low-value care significantly with concurrent efforts from providers and health systems, payers, policymakers, employers, and patients.
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Taking lots of medications is, for many of us, an inevitable part of getting older. While some of these drugs help keep us healthy, there are serious risks to taking too many. For my husband, the drugs he was prescribed to alleviate his symptoms became a cascade of medications that eventually destroyed his health.
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Like other businesses around the country, many doctors were forced to close their offices — or at least see only emergency cases — when the pandemic struck. That led to sharp revenue losses, layoffs and pay cuts.
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Health care facilities are urging patients back for routine screening tests. Critics say Covid-19 begs a recalibration.
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In the study, researchers found whole exome sequencing turned up more false positives and more false negatives for inherited metabolic disorders.
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A new qualitative study offers insights into why so many people at low risk of heart disease are taking statins.
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