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Hospital Readmission Rates Linked to Availability of Care, Socioeconomics

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Care Home Admission More Likely For Women Due To Their Partner’s Age

Click Here to Read More … New research published in the journal Age and Aging has investigated why women are 40% more likely to be admitted in to a care home than men. The study found that women were often married to older partners who cannot provide care for them due to their age-related frailty…
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Understanding the Science of Good Genes Could Lead to Better Skin Care Products, Recommendations

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Improved Patient Outcomes Likely With Specialist Cancer Care

Click Here to Read More … Survival rates for cancer patients may be improved by treatment in specialised cancer centres, according to Cochrane researchers. In a review of recent studies, they found that women diagnosed with gynaecological cancer lived longer when treated in specialist compared to non-specialist units. In the past, cancer patients were often treated by non-specialist surgeons and hospitals…
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What makes patients complex? Ask their primary care physicians

Click Here to Read More … Being able to define and measure patient complexity has important implications for how care is organized, how physicians and health care systems are paid, and how resources are allocated. A study by MGH researchers finds that primary care physicians define patient complexity using more factors than are used in common approaches.
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Health Affairs article focuses on health care disparities facing people with disabilities

Click Here to Read More … In the October issue of Health Affairs, Lisa Iezzoni, MD, director of the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at MGH, analyzes available information on disparities affecting people with disabilities and highlights barriers that continue to restrict their access to health services.
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Good News for Rural Stroke Patients: Telestroke Care is Cost-effective

Click Here to Read More … In this first-of-its-kind U.S. health economic analysis, researchers have found that using two way audio-video telemedicine to deliver stroke care, also known as telestroke, appears to be cost-effective for rural hospitals that don’t have an around-the-clock neurologist, or stroke expert, on staff.
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Study Shows Annual Cervical Cancer Screening Still Recommended By Most Primary Care Providers Despite Suggested Guidelines

Click Here to Read More … Researchers from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have determined that most primary care providers still recommend annual cervical cancer screening, and less than 15% would extend the screening interval when using the Papanicolaou test and human papillomavirus (HPV) test together, as some guidelines suggest…
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Could an ‘ankle hotline’ relieve strain on health care demands?

Click Here to Read More … MGH investigators suggest that – since strains and sprains, which account for over a third of lower extremity injuries treated at emergency departments, are not life-threatening – telephone triage and scheduled care appointments might be a better use of precious emergency healthcare resources.
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SHARP: Mayo Clinic Advances Health IT Science to Improve Delivery of Care

Click Here to Read More … Investigators with the Mayo Clinic-led health information technology project are close to finishing a suite of computing tools that can identify and sort digital health information from any electronic medical record, regardless of file format and data organization.
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