Practice Management News

In his keynote address at this year’s Ending Clinician Burnout Global Summit, Thom Mayer, MD, FACEP, likened the health care practitioners in the audience to the professional football players he routinely treats.

More than half of antibiotic prescriptions for acute sinusitis follow prescribing guidelines, but nearly one-third do not, and most prescriptions are given for too long a duration, according to a study.

Low levels of alcohol consumption may be associated with increased mortality risk in adults with health-related or socioeconomic risk factors, results from a recent analysis suggested.

NEW YORK — In this Healio Video Perspective from the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, David Frederick, MD, discusses a workshop that aims to empower physicians to provide bias-free psychiatry teaching services.

As medical technology quickly evolves, practices in nearly all areas of medicine must frequently evaluate equipment upgrades and new purchases of new technology to stay at the forefront of patient care.

People with virally suppressed HIV who are hospitalized with community acquired pneumonia do not have a higher mortality risk than people without HIV, according to a study.

Most clinicians expressed positive attitudes and increased knowledge about climate change and health following the completion of a quality incentive program, researchers found.

Ingesting colloidal silver supplements is popular but unsafe and, in excess, can lead to a patient’s skin permanently turning blue, according to experts.

The American Osteopathic Association, or AOA, installed Teresa A. Hubka, DO, FACOOG, FACOG, CS, as its next president.

In this edition, low education level raises follow-up risk in screening program, screening judgement strongly influenced by clinicians and more.