The United States will be short nearly 28,000 surgeons by 2038, according to the first unified assessment of the country’s surgical workforce. The analysis found the surgeon workforce… read more.
Emergency Medicine & Intensive Care
The risk of death for patients treated in the emergency department increases by one per cent for every ten per cent increase in occupancy, according to research that… read more.
Emergency medicine physician-researchers at the University of Cincinnati have shown that a targeted quality improvement campaign can safely reduce unnecessary head and cervical spine (neck) computed tomography (CT) scans in… read more.
Dr. Wendy Harpham was 36 years old and a successful physician who prided herself on her empathy. Then she was diagnosed with cancer. Seeing things from the other… read more.
Artificial intelligence (AI) scribes can reduce the time physicians spend documenting patient visits by 69.1% during simulated primary care appointments, according to research led by University of Toronto PhD student LaShawn Murray. The… read more.
Nearly half of health boards in England are deliberately delaying care for patients by imposing minimum waiting times in an attempt to manage demand and control costs, reveals… read more.
Facing major surgery is stressful, but for older adults, unaddressed anxiety and depression can impede physical recovery. A clinical trial led by researchers at Washington University School of… read more.
Women have driven the expansion of the global health workforce over the past three decades, yet substantial workforce shortages remain, according to a new study published in The Lancet Public… read more.
You get a message that a test result is available in your online patient portal. Do you look at it right away, or do you wait to hear… read more.
The NHS 10 year Health Plan “risks propagating patient harm at an unprecedented scale” due to the lack of appropriate safety architecture to support the envisaged digital transformation,… read more.
A real-time prescription benefit (RTPB) tool did not change overall prescription fill rates but did increase fill rates for high-cost medications, according to a post hoc analysis of… read more.
Physicians born outside the United States account for close to half of the internal medicine workforce in the US and shoulder a disproportionate share of care for underserved… read more.
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