Neurology
Wrong-Patient Order Entry Errors Reduced With Patient Photos
THURSDAY, Nov. 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Displaying patient photographs in electronic health records (EHRs) reduces wrong-patient order entry (WPOE), according to a study published online Nov. 11 in JAMA Network Open. Hojjat Salmasian, M.D., Ph.D., from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and colleagues evaluated whether the noninterruptive display of patient photographs in the...
Patients Happier With Doctors of Same Race
MONDAY, Nov. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Racial/ethnic concordance between patients and their physicians is associated with higher patient satisfaction scores, according to a study published online Nov. 9 in JAMA Network Open. Junko Takeshita, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues evaluated patient- and physician-related determinants of the patient experience...
Risk for Heart Failure Lower With Healthy Sleep Patterns
MONDAY, Nov. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Adherence to healthy sleep patterns is associated with a lower risk for heart failure, according to a research letter published online Nov. 16 in Circulation. Xiang Li, Ph.D., from the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans, and colleagues prospectively investigated the...
Automated Alarm IDs Inpatients at Risk for Sudden Decline
THURSDAY, Nov. 12, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The use of automated detection of impending in-hospital clinical deterioration for which interventions could be implemented is associated with reduced mortality, according to a study published in the Nov. 12 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Gabriel J. Escobar, M.D., from the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center...
Spinal Cord Stimulation May Ease Diabetic Nerve Pain
TUESDAY, Nov. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Low-frequency spinal cord stimulation (SCS) may be effective for treating painful diabetic neuropathy (DN), according to a study scheduled for presentation at the 19th Annual Pain Medicine Meeting, a meeting of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, held virtually from Nov. 20 to 22. Erika...
COVID-19 Infection Higher Among Support Staff Than Doctors, Nurses
TUESDAY, Nov. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Support staff in health care settings have higher COVID-19 infection rates than physicians and nurses, according to a study published online Oct. 31 in Open Forum Infectious Diseases. Emily S. Barrett, Ph.D., from Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, and colleagues screened 3,904 employees and clinicians at a...
Medicare Outpatient Premium to Rise
MONDAY, Nov. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The Medicare Part B premium for outpatient care will increase next year, and so will the deductible, Medicare officials announced Friday. The monthly premium for outpatient care will rise by $3.90 next year to $148.50, which will claim 20 percent of the average retired worker’s Social Security cost-of-living...
Restricting Symptoms at the End of Life Decreasing
FRIDAY, Nov. 6, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The occurrence of most restricting symptoms at the end of life has been decreasing during the last 20 years, according to a study published online Nov. 3 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Thomas M. Gill, M.D., from the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven,...
Considerable Decreases Seen in Health Care Use During COVID-19
FRIDAY, Nov. 6, 2020 (HealthDay News) — During the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a considerable decrease in preventive and elective health care use, according to a study published online Nov. 5 in JAMA Network Open. Christopher M. Whaley, Ph.D., from the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, and colleagues examined...
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