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A Quarter of Patients Discharged from Hospitals Return to ERs Within 30 Days
April 16, 2013 — Nearly one quarter of patients may return to the emergency department within 30 days of being discharged from a hospitalization, according to ... > full story -
Lack of Consensus Among Health Care Providers in Identifying Sepsis Poses Threat to Treatment
April 16, 2013 — Though the toll of sepsis is known to be enormous -- costing the US health care system $24.3 billion each year, and is the nation's third-leading killer -- the true magnitude of incidence of and ... > full story -
College Admission Questions Rarely Identify Criminal Behavior
April 16, 2013 — A new study shows that neither criminal background checks nor pre-admission screening questions accurately predict students likely to commit crime on college ... > full story -
Tobacco Companies Keep People Smoking Despite UK Cigarette Tax Increases
April 16, 2013 — The tobacco industry keeps the price of its cheapest cigarettes virtually static despite annual increases in tobacco taxes, circumventing the United Kingdom's public health policy to reduce smoking ... > full story -
Lower Education Linked to Premature Death from Malignant Melanoma
April 16, 2013 — There are socioeconomic differences in Sweden in survival amongst people with malignant skin melanoma, according to a new study. Melanoma patients with a lower educational background are much more ... > full story -
England's Smoking Ban Linked to Annual 5 Percent Drop in Emergency Admissions for Asthma
April 15, 2013 — Emergency admissions for asthma among adults fell by just under five percent in each of the first three years after the ban on smoking in public places was introduced in England, reveals the largest ... > full story -
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Sharing Individual Health Information Could Improve Care and Reduce Costs for All
April 15, 2013 — Information collected from individual patients at doctor's office and hospital visits could be used to improve health care and reduce costs on a national scale, according to a new ... > full story -
South Not the Fattest Part of U.S. After All
April 11, 2013 — Previous data has shown that areas of the south — specifically Mississippi and Alabama – are the fattest in the U.S. But new data contradicts ... > full story -
Complaint-Prone Doctors Can Be Identified Before Complaints Occur
April 11, 2013 — A small group of doctors accounts for half of all patient complaints against doctors, a new study has ... > full story -
How Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Implemented Washington's Death With Dignity Act
April 10, 2013 — Because several states are considering similar Death with Dignity laws, and because such legislation disproportionately affects cancer patients and their families, SCCA conducted a study to describe ... > full story
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