Top stories in health and medicine, October 17, 2013
From MedPage Today:
Post-Concussion Cognitive Deficit Lingers. College football players with concussions still showed mild cognitive impairment on the Concussion Resolution Index after commonly looked-for symptoms subsided.
IBD Tied to Higher Risk for Heart Trouble. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) was associated with increased risks for stroke, myocardial infarction (MI), and ischemic heart disease, particularly in women.
Medicare Eases Rule for Bariatric Surgery Centers. Staying the course on bariatric surgery, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) eliminated a certification requirement for facilities th...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 17, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: News GI Heart Neurology Obesity Source Type: blogs
Medical Mispronunciations and Misspelled Words: The Definitive List.
Hearing medical mispronunciations and seeing misspelled words are an under appreciated joy of working in healthcare. Physicians often forget just how alien the language of medicine is to people who don't live it everyday. The best part about being a physician is not helping people recover from critical illness. The best part is not about listening and understanding with compassion and empathy. Nope, the best part about being a physician is hearing patients and other healthcare providers butcher the language of medicine and experiencing great entertainment in the process. Doctors c...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - October 2, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Tamer Mahrous Source Type: blogs
Facilitated Quality Competition As A Driver Of Health Care Value
A front-page article in the April 16, 2013 issue of the New York Times announced that “[h]ospitals make money from their own mistakes because insurers pay them for the longer stays and extra care that patients need to treat surgical complications that could have been prevented.” That conclusion came from a study by Sunil Eappen and his co-authors, published in the April 17 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association. Eappen and his colleagues were not alone in reporting this finding. Last year, we along with William Weeks came to the same conclusion. The two studies demonstrate that hospitals that set ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 30, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Dan Krupka Tags: All Categories Competition Consumers Effectiveness Health Care Costs Hospitals Payment Policy Quality Source Type: blogs
Top stories in health and medicine, September 13, 2013
From MedPage Today:
Hospitalists No Panacea for HF. Greater use of hospitalists for managing patients with heart failure did not improve outcomes through 30 days.
Third-Hand Smoke Impacts Kids’ Breathing. Third-hand smoke — residue that remains on the skin, clothes, and furniture of smokers, even if they do their smoking out of the house — still impacts children’s breathing.
Low Dose Vancomycin Works for C. Diff. A low dose of oral vancomycin yields similar outcomes to a high dose for the treatment of Clostridium difficile infection.
Sudden Death, Pump Failure Cut With CABG. For patients with isch...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 13, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: News Heart Hospitalist Infectious disease Pulmonology Source Type: blogs
