More than half of prescription medication exposures among children involve access to medications that have previously been removed from their original packaging.
The majority of patients consider a positive online reputation to be very or extremely important when selecting a healthcare provider. We review some do’s and don’ts of responding to negative reviews online.
Compliance with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 is low, with only 40.9 percent of trials reporting results within one year.
Physicians spend a considerable amount of time using electronic health records (EHRs) to support care delivery, with wide variation seen in the distribution of time within specialty.
Hospital mergers and acquisitions may precipitate a modest decline in patient care quality; however, no differential changes in readmission or mortality rates were observed in acquired institutions compared with control hospitals.
Among patients with very high use of health care services, readmission rates were not lower for those assigned to a care-transition program compared with usual care.
