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Children with asthma who visited an allergy specialist were 21% less likely to visit the ED or be hospitalized compared with children who did not, according to findings published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

SEATTLE — Patients who worked with a life care specialist after orthopedic trauma injury may experience improved pain outcomes at 3 months postoperatively, according to results presented here.

Many U.S. residents live less than 20 km from a cardiologist, but distances in the western U.S. were larger, with some patients traveling more than 100 km to see an HF physician, researchers wrote.

The ACP has proposed a new process to streamline specialty referrals — a step that experts have called critical to fixing a massive issue in health care — but questions remain about the plan’s feasibility.

Patients were more likely to report receiving better specialty care if their primary care physicians referred them to specialists who the PCPs knew, according to research published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Fewer adults with multimorbidity had a “usual” clinician from whom they regularly sought care in 2016 compared with 2010, according to survey results published in JAMA Network Open.

Compared with tertiary care institutions, orthopedic specialty hospitals are associated with lower rates of deep surgical site infection at 1 year, according to published results.

Healio announced that David Ruppel has been appointed to the position of senior vice president of analytics, where he will focus on developing and expanding Healio analytics and audience insights.

The Affordable Care Act did not lower primary care physician or specialist compensation as previously feared, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

Healio has launched a new, fully reengineered version of its website, delivering personalized news and education in an enhanced user experience to specialty health care professionals, the company announced.