Multiple Anesthesia Exposures Affect Learning and Attention
Adverse outcomes more likely to develop in children with multiple exposures before age 3
Medicare Requiring Hospitals to Post Prices Online
Medicare would base part of a hospital's payments on how easy it is for patients to access medical records
American College of Physicians, April 19-21
The American College of Physicians: Internal Medicine Meeting The annual meeting of the American College of Physicians (ACP) was held from April 19...
Eight Factors Predict Pain After Spine Surgery
Post-op pain strongly linked to number of classes of non-opioid analgesics used, remifentanil use
Mortality Down With Spinal Anesthesia for Hip Fx Surgery
Increased incidence of pulmonary embolism and major blood loss with general anesthesia
Less Pain Post TKA With Addition of Peripheral Nerve Blocks
Lower numeric rating scale pain scores on ambulation on postoperative days zero, one, and two
Nonoptimized Drug Therapy Costs More Than $500 Billion Annually
After initial Rx use, average cost of individual having treatment failure, new medical problem over $2,000
Recommendations Developed on Gender Equity in Medicine
ACP supports equitable physician compensation based on comparable work at each stage of career
Recent Years Saw Increase in Burden of Prior Authorization
Ninety-two percent of physicians report PA-associated delays in patient access to care
Considerable Differences in Burden of Disease at State Level
Increasing burden of various diseases depending on state; overall death rates declined
