Practice Management News

Among individuals with darker skin tones, pulse oximeters often overestimated their oxygen saturation levels, according to a systematic review published in British Journal of Anaesthesia.

Although the United States has one of the lowest tuberculosis incidence rates in the world, TB cases increased in the U.S. in 2023 among nearly all demographics, data from an MMWR report showed.

Storing donor lungs in a controlled hypothermic storage device with a total ischemic time of more than 15 hours “appears to be safe” in adult recipients, according to results published in Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation.

ChatGPT produced high-quality and accurate summaries of medical abstracts but struggled to classify the relevance of abstracts to medical specialties, a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine showed.

In our last post, we saw how rollover equity fits into the overall consideration paid to a selling physician owner of a physician practice.

A task force supported by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society recently published the first guidance for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 in children in the vaccine era.

Hyperangulated video laryngoscopy among patients being intubated increased initial intubation attempt success and reduced the number of intubation attempts vs. direct laryngoscopy, a study showed.

When I first entered the medical profession more than 30 years ago, I was taken by the amount of trash that was produced in the emergency department where I volunteered.

Among teenagers and young adults who use e-cigarettes, disposable products were associated with longer and more frequent use than nondisposable products, according to findings published in Pediatrics.

The CDC published a guide that hospitals can use to reduce the risk for burnout among health care staff.