May 8th 2024
Regular users of the emergency department (ED) transiently reduced ED visits when faced with ED access barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cultural Humility, Pioneering Leadership Are Key to Address Health Disparities
October 19th 2023Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, FACOG, a distinguished infertility specialist, highlights the pivotal role of cultural humility, diversity, acknowledgment of historical injustices, and collective action in addressing disparities and fostering equitable access to health care.
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Beyond Roe: Abortion Rights, Equity, and the Path Forward
October 18th 2023In the aftermath of the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, Anita Allen, PhD, highlights the challenges to abortion rights in the United States, emphasizing disparities faced by marginalized communities, outlining threats to reproductive health care, and calling for collective action and advocacy to defend constitutional privacy and uphold the dignity of all individuals.
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Call for Cultural Considerations When Screening Oocyte Donors and Gestational Carriers
October 17th 2023Wiyatta Fahnbulleh, PsyD, and Pamela Blackwell, PsyD, LMSW, presented on the cultural limitations of the Personality Assessment Inventory and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for assessing individuals for third-party reproduction.
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Dr Javed Butler: How STEP-HFpEF Findings on Semaglutide Translate to Clinical Practice
October 13th 2023Positive results from STEP-HFpEF indicate that semaglutide can improve quality of life and functional capacity in patients with obesity-related heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), but large outcomes trials are needed to confirm this, said Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA.
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Review Details Strategies for Mitigating Bias in Clinical Algorithms
October 10th 2023Based on the comprehensive findings of a review, investigators outline several crucial policy implications, each designed to address the complex issue of bias mitigation in clinical algorithms effectively.
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Tailored EHR Alerts Fail to Improve Acute HF Medication Prescription at Discharge
September 21st 2023A tailored electronic health record (EHR) alert system did not significantly increase the prescription of guideline-directed medical therapies (GDMT) at hospital discharge for patients with acute heart failure (AHF).
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Dr Donna Fitzsimons: “Doctor Knows Best” Mindset Wanes as Patients Become More Self-Educated
September 20th 2023Patients now have higher expectations of us health care professionals, and we have to meet those expectations, said Donna Fitzsimons, PhD, FESC, professor of nursing at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen's University Belfast.
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Dr Milind Desai on VALOR-HCM: Primary and Secondary Effects Are Sustained While on Mavacamten
September 16th 2023Secondary effects not only improved past 16 weeks, but showed a sustained improvement at week 56 of mavacamten, said Milind Desai, MD, MBA, director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center and vice chair of education at the Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic.
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Dr Zachary Cox: Early Dapagliflozin Modestly Improves Diuresis, Decongestion for Patients With ADHF
September 14th 2023Despite not reaching statistical significance, findings from DICTATE-AHF show early dapagliflozin improved decongestion and led to earlier hospital discharge for patients with acute decompensated heart failure, explained Zachary Cox, PharmD, professor at Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy.
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Atezolizumab Misses PFS End Point in Recurrent Epithelial Ovarian Cancer
September 12th 2023Results from ATLANTE/ENGOT-ov29 show that atezolizumab did not significantly improve progression-free survival (PFS) compared with placebo plus bevacizumab for patients with platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer.
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Condensed Proton Therapy Schedule Shows Promise for Patients With Breast Cancer
September 8th 2023New research suggests conventional fractionated and hypofractionated proton postmastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT) yield similar tolerability and complication rates for patients following mastectomy.
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AML-Specific Early Mortality Risk Indices May Increase Accuracy of Care Quality Measurements
September 8th 2023A study found acute myeloid leukemia (AML) salvage therapy was independently associated with early mortality compared with frontline therapy, suggesting that algorithms measuring quality of care should incorporate risk mortality indices that factor in disease characteristics and treatment status.
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National Alliance Guideline Identifies Key PBM Concerns for Health Plan Purchasers
September 7th 2023The playbook includes resources for purchasers to help in their dealings with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), including best practice checklists, sample questionnaires for choosing consultants, and recommendations for contracting language.
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Study Highlights Factors Linked to ED Readmission Following Ovarian Carcinoma Surgery
September 6th 2023Out of several factors, surgical complications were the only factor independently associated with emergency department (ED) readmission among patients who underwent surgery for ovarian carcinoma.
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Dr Sachin Jain on the Changing Doctor-Patient Relationship and Middlemen in Health Care
September 1st 2023Sachin Jain, MD, MBA, president and CEO at SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan, discussed the growing roles of middlemen between physicians and their patients in an increasingly complex system.
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