Inside Medicare’s Physician Payment Reform Illusion of Inaction
A firsthand account of Medicare payment reform shows how public inaction can conceal intensive legislative work, persistent budget constraints and ...
Tag: primary care
Deprivation-linked prevalence of 209 conditions varied across 12.7 million English patients
A linked-record study of 12.7 million patients found widespread but highly variable differences across 209 chronic conditions by area-level deprivation ...
Study examines closure of a language-concordant health-care phone line
A research report by Sahoko H. Little and Michael Amano examines the discontinuation of a language-concordant phone line and its ...
Urgent Care Centers Cut Low-Acuity Emergency Department Visits by Up to 42 Percent in Italian Region
A real-world evaluation in Italy's Emilia-Romagna region found that community-based urgent care centers reduced low-acuity emergency department visits by up ...
When Doctors Graduate, Who Keeps the Patient? New Study Maps the Annual Primary Care Handoff
A Harvard and Brigham and Women's study of an annual panel-review system shows how academic primary care clinics can transfer ...
Cheap Hearing Aids Work Far Better When an Expert Helps You Fit Them
A large randomized trial in China found that older adults who received physician or remote audiologist support gained significantly more ...
Patients Redesign the Questions Hospitals Ask About Their Social Needs
At Boston Medical Center, 37 patients speaking English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole co-designed a social needs screening tool, revealing that ...
Team-Based Message Protocols Ease the EHR Inbox Burden on Primary Care Doctors
A large quality improvement study found that embedding standardized message-handling protocols for medical assistants and nurses modestly reduced the share ...
Why Young Doctors in Rural China Plan to Leave: Leadership and Family Life Hold the Key
A qualitative study of 26 rural-oriented medical students in Guangxi, China, finds that only about 23 percent intend to stay ...
Marginalization and Missing Primary Care Linked to Early Death in Metastatic Breast Cancer
An Ontario study of more than 4,000 patients found that social marginalization and lack of a primary care provider significantly ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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