Improved research methods needed to determine effectiveness of anti-obesity public health initiatives
1. Researchers found that amongst nearly 300 studies reporting the impact of policies, programs, or changes in built environment on...
Hospital readmissions occurring within 7 days post-discharge may be more preventable than later readmissions
1. The percentage of preventable early readmissions (within 7 days post-discharge) and late readmissions (between 8 and 30 days post-discharge)...
Rustbelt states may have greatest racial disparities between black and white men for firearm homicides
1. Racial disparities for firearm homicides between black and white males are highest in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, and Pennsylvania,...
Optimizing organ donations from overdose deaths may help address national organ shortage
1. U.S. transplants using organs from overdose-death donors (ODDs) has increased 24-fold from 2000 to 2016, and transplant outcomes from...
Survey suggests physicians and Medicare skilled home health care clinicians lack interaction
1. About 80% of physicians seldom or never communicated with skilled home health care (SHHC) clinicians about information on the...
E-cigarette use may hamper smoking cessation for smokers planning to quit post-hospitalization
1. In a study of hospitalized smokers who planned to quit smoking post-discharge, users of e-cigarettes were not as likely...
Racial/ethnic disparities in cardiovascular health persist in U.S. adults
1. Trends from 1988 to 2014 data suggest that for U.S. adults, cardiovascular health has worsened, and health disparities in...
Hydroxychloroquine shows no greater effectiveness than placebo for hand osteoarthritis pain
1. For radiographic osteoarthritis and hand pain that is moderate to severe, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) does not show any greater effectiveness...
Complex government-mandated sepsis performance measures not shown to improve survival
1. No moderate- or high-level evidence was found that SEP-1 or its hemodynamic interventions increase survival in septic adults. 2....
Treatment-free remission of chronic myeloid leukemia possible after second-line nilotinib
1. Phase 2, open-label study results suggest that treatment-free remission (TFR) of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) for ≥48 weeks can...
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