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The initiation of medications for alcohol use disorder, or AUD, at discharge reduced the incidence of several outcomes like hospital readmissions and ED visits, a study showed.

U.S. News & World Report released its 2024 lists of the best maternity care access hospitals and hospitals that were high performing for maternity care, according to a press release from the publication.

WASHINGTON — Black children were more than twice as likely to die of sepsis as white children at one Arkansas hospital, according to research presented at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition.

Patients admitted for an emergency general surgery condition had nearly 70% reduced odds of readmission if they had a primary care physician follow-up visit within 30 days of discharge, a study found.

Annual pediatric hospitalizations decreased substantially in the United States during a recent 10-year span, with the largest decreases seen at rural and urban nonteaching hospitals, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

I think it was in 1965 — so, a long time ago — that I finished my internship in the U.K. and wanted to do something a little bit more interesting than staying on the usual rotation through jobs.

Experts said clinicians should consider masking during periods of elevated respiratory viral activity after a study linked pandemic prevention measures to decreases in nosocomial COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses.

Hospital burden of patients with chronic kidney disease may mostly be driven by multi-day admissions for non-directly related conditions, recent data show.

NYU Langone Hospitals was named the top hospital in the United States for neurology and neurosurgery by the U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Hospitals survey.

For the eighth consecutive year, Mayo Clinic is ranked the No. 1 hospital for gastroenterology and GI surgery, according to the 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings.