Medical Practice Management News

• Staffing Woes Set to Weigh on Hospital Operator's Profits Hospital operators in the U.S. are likely to see a dip in fourth-quarter profits as an ongoing staffing crunch limits their ability to take advantage of an early onset of the flu season and boost admissions.
  Reuters Health Information, January 26, 2023
• EMR Screening in Emergency Department Tags Undiagnosed Diabetes Missed diabetes diagnoses identified by EMR screening were especially common in racial and ethnic minorities.
  MDedge News, January 26, 2023
• Medical Debt Persists, but Declines in the United States An updated report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found a slight decrease in the percentage of families struggling to pay medical bills.
  Medscape Medical News, January 26, 2023
• More Californians Are Dying at Home. Another COVID 'New Normal'? The proportion of Californians dying at home, rather than in a hospital or nursing home, accelerated during the pandemic, a trend that has outlasted the rigid lockdowns linked to the initial shift.
  Kaiser Health News, January 26, 2023
• Workers' Compensation Claims Point to Long COVID's Toll The dollar figures are just part of an emerging picture of how the illness is impacting not just patients, but their employers and the wider labor market.
  WebMD Health News, January 26, 2023
• Has the Move to Online Primary Care Visits Raised ED Visits? Additional studies should focus on long-term outcomes of virtual care as its popularity grows, according to researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, January 26, 2023
• Off Their Pricey CML Meds, Many Thrive Over the last few years, physicians have experimented with taking patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) off their drugs entirely, and the results are promising.
  MDedge News, January 26, 2023
• COVID-19 Pandemic Prompted Shifts in Cancer Treatments, Wait Times Future studies should investigate how shifts in care may have affected long-term patient outcomes, according to researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, January 25, 2023
• Inflation Reduction Act Will Make HF Meds More Affordable By capping Medicare out-of-pocket expenses at $2000 a year, the Inflation Reduction Act will allow more patients with heart failure to access lifesaving treatments, cardiologists say.
  Medscape Medical News, January 23, 2023
• Parkinson's Disease: Focus on Hallucinations Patients often hide their hallucinations, which are associated with poor long-term outcomes and a reduced quality of life.
  Medscape Medical News, January 23, 2023
• High-Deductible Health Plans Detrimental for Those With Diabetes Individuals forced to switch to high-deductible plans appear to ration care, leading to more hypo- and hyperglycemic events.
  Medscape Medical News, January 23, 2023
• Prostate Cancer Death: Race Is Irrelevant Despite a long-held belief that prostate cancer mortality is worse among Black men, in fact, it is similar or even lower than the rate in White men when social factors are equalized, suggests a new analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, January 23, 2023
• Preexposure Prophylaxis Gives Good Results in Latin America A prospective Brazilian study found that same-day initiation of PrEP for HIV prevention is feasible and is associated with high adherence and long-term engagement.
  Medscape Medical News, January 20, 2023
• Foreign Doc Fights Return to Homeland, Can Stay in US -- for Now A bureaucratic immigration snafu imperiled an Indian physician's bid for a green card. So he sued federal immigration authorities in a case that could have implications for other foreign-born doctors.
  Medscape Medical News, January 20, 2023
• Money Mistakes Med Students Make and How to Avoid Them: Poll Docs in training know they will see earnings rise in the future, but are often confused about debt and finances, a Medscape poll finds. Financial advisers offer tips to help them manage their money.
  Medscape Medical News, January 19, 2023
• COPD Patients at Higher Risk of Death 1 Year After Surgery Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are 26% more likely to die after elective surgery and to incur increased healthcare costs, compared with peers without the condition, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2023
• Is It Time for Yet Another COVID Booster? It's Complicated When should we think about the next COVID-19 vaccine? Or should we?
  WebMD Health News, January 18, 2023
• Can 'Radical Rest' Help With Long COVID Symptoms? "The concept that I would be too sick to work was very alien to me."
  WebMD Health News, January 18, 2023
• Evolocumab's LDL Lowering Surpassed Inclisiran's in ORION-3 Results from a crossover subgroup of 92 patients in ORION-3 documented evolocumab's greater LDL-lowering efficacy compared with inclisiran.
  MDedge News, January 18, 2023
• Adverse Events Reported in One Quarter of Inpatient Admissions An update to the 1991 Harvard Medical Practice Study states that 7% of inpatient adverse events are preventable.
  Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2023