Physician Empathy Inversely Linked to Patients’ Back Pain Intensity, HRQOL
For chronic low back pain patients, lower mean pain intensity and fewer HRQOL deficits seen for those with very empathetic physicians
Preop Intranasal Povidone-Iodine Reduces Rate of Surgical Site Infection
Deep surgical site infection rate decreased postintervention in patients undergoing arthroplasty and spine surgery
AI Tools Help Predict Complications Following Lower-Extremity Fracture
XGBoost identified as optimal model, achieving average test AUC of 0.90 before synthetic minority oversampling technique
Progressive Resistance Training Not Superior for Hip Osteoarthritis
Progressive resistance training not superior to neuromuscular exercise for improving functional performance, hip pain, QOL
Femoral Nerve Block Cuts Opioid Use in ACL Reconstruction
Lower incidence of excessive opioid consumption seen for patients receiving femoral nerve block versus adductor canal block
Review Compares Analgesic Interventions After Shoulder Surgery
Lowest pain scores at 12 hours after surgery seen with continuous nerve block; very low pain scores also seen at 24, 48 hours
Cures Act Tied to Quicker Release, Access of Imaging Reports
Additionally, proportion of patients who accessed their reports before the ordering provider increased
U.S. Doctors Received Industry Payments of $12.13 Billion From 2013 to 2022
57.1 percent of physicians received payments; median payment was $48, but considerable variation seen in payments
Increased Morbidity Risks Seen for Male, Female p.C282Y Homozygotes
Increased risks seen for those with baseline hemochromatosis diagnoses and for those undiagnosed with hemochromatosis
Generalized Joint Hypermobility May Increase Risk for Long COVID
Hypermobility also predicts greater fatigue levels
