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.
The study found that workplace culture and day-to-day working conditions were among the strongest factors influencing whether nurses in the later stages of their careers chose to stay in the… read more.
A multi-institutional study led by researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found that telemedicine is becoming increasingly common for problem-based primary care, particularly for children with endocrine… read more.
Letters to patients from ophthalmology services—-the highest volume outpatient specialty in UK healthcare—include too much complex language and medical terminology which patients are likely to find hard to… read more.
The share of newly prescribed buprenorphine prescriptions for opioid use disorder that were never dispensed almost doubled between 2020 and 2024, according to a CDC-led analysis published in… read more.
Discharge summaries are among the most important documents in healthcare, yet they are frequently late, inconsistent, and incomplete. In this interview, Toong Foo Chan, Chief Pharmacist and Controlled… read more.
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