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Where you live can affect your chances of getting a liver transplant, and your risk of dying while waiting. The nation's transplant network says it's time to make the system fairer.
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Patient-safety issues raised by the critics of limits on resident duty hours have not materialized. But concerns about doctors-in-training spending less time with patients appear to be valid, according to two new studies in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
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It's enough to make your head spin. Estimated costs for visits to hospital emergency departments for dizziness-related complaints exceed $4 billion a year, according to a new study.
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Patients are more likely to fill prescriptions that treat costly, chronic diseases when health insurers offer them a financial incentive to do so through value-based insurance design. That's the good news in a research review just published by the journal Health Affairs.
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The doctors of Cornerstone Health Care in High Point, N.C., understand more than most the risk behind healthcare's push to overhaul payment policy.
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The number of organ donors jumped dramatically last year when Donate Life America—an organization that seeks to promote organ donation—partnered with Facebook to draw attention to the national organ shortage, according to a study by Johns Hopkins University researchers published in the...
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It's long been known that healthcare does not fit the standard model for perfect competition. Author Douglas Hough goes further: He says patients, providers and other stakeholders are irrational.
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Much has changed in the years since the Institute of Medicine published To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, companion reports released in 1999 and 2001 that sounded the alarm about high rates of adverse events and the urgent need to adopt proven best practices in healthcare.
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The nominees for Modern Healthcare's 12th annual 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare competition.
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The time medical interns spend interacting with patients continues to drop, taking up only 12% of their working hours, according to a study at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Maryland Medical Center.
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