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If you’re admitted to the hospital with a heart attack, your chances of survival may depend as much on such factors as how quickly the institution cycles through CEOs as on the type of treatment you receive.
That’s the conclusion of a new report from Yale researchers who compared the characteristics of hospitals in […]
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Shirley S. Wang
As the authors write, “The results suggest much room for improvement.”
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There’s a wide variation in the quality of care, patient outcomes and cost of services in the U.S. despite high-profile examples of providers who generally get it right.
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For economists, it’s important to figure out whether amenities add value to society, three researchers say.
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ACOs are supposed to provide higher-quality, more efficient care by better integrating oversight of patients and reducing unnecessary services
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Also: safety problems persist; NICE nixes Novartis’s Afinitor; secondhand smoke stats.
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When consumers pay $4 cash for a prescription, there’s no incentive for pharmacies to go through the hassle of submitting the claim.
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Katherine Hobson
The ten hospitals and systems that volunteered to collaborate on the issue initially found that hand-offs were defective 37% of the time.
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A JAMA commentary suggests the government site take a cue from TripAdvisor.
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Katherine Hobson
Also: a study shows an association between jaundice and autism; Novartis prices its oral MS drug; sussing out accountable care organizations.
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