For patients with complex needs and social challenges like unstable housing, the hospital has become their de facto medical home—yet each visit is a fragmented restart, without continuity, context, or a clear path forward.
Researchers are calling for more targeted efforts to improve health equity after a new analysis revealed that cancer symptom documentation and burden vary across certain demographics.
Sleep duration and sleep pattern score were both independently associated with obesity occurrence, and there was a nonlinear relationship between obesity and sleep duration.
While findings around hospital and emergency department use were similar at the individual and neighborhood levels, the use of outpatient services differed.
This study found no evidence that hospital employment of physicians resulted in physicians treating sicker patients, undercutting claims that hospital-employed physicians serve a higher-acuity patient mix.