Practice Management News

CHICAGO — The escalating prevalence of burnout among U.S. health care providers poses “a real threat” to public health, the U.S. surgeon general told ASCO Annual Meeting attendees.

Among more than 72,000 blood donors in the United States aged 16 years or older, 96% had antibodies against the virus that causes COVID-19 by late last year, according to a new analysis.

Medicare patients who were treated by osteopathic and allopathic hospitalists received similar quality and costs of care, according to the results of research published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

With the rapid rise of interest rates in the last year, many physicians might be interested and surprised to learn where extremely low rates still exist.

WASHINGTON — A test designed to rapidly determine sepsis probability in ED patients suspected of having an infection was found to be reliable, according to an abstract presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

Most medical practices subject to data security regulations of the HIPAA Security Rule have adopted administrative, physical and technical safeguards for electronic protected health information in accordance with the HIPAA Security Rule.

Researchers found that patients hospitalized withCOVID-19 received antibiotics for potential secondary bacterial infections without clinical indications suggesting they could benefit from the treatment.

WASHINGTON — Three months after a COVID-19 infection, women with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome had worse airway measurements on CT scans than men, according to an abstract presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

Physicians listen to the patient in front of us. We care for one patient at a time. There is inherent individualization in the patient interaction. Each story is unique. Each treatment plan is tailored.

Incidence of myocarditis/pericarditis among veterans was low across more than 10 million doses of messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines, given as a primary or booster dose, administered at the Veterans Health Administration, researchers found.