Keeping Cancer Survivors Healthy
For more than 15 years, the “Eight Ways to Stay Healthy and Prevent Cancer” message campaign has...
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Hospital Medicine
Tackling Binge Drinking With Text Messages
Each year, more than 50,000 adults between the ages of 18 and 24 visit EDs, and about half have...
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Preventing Duplicate Laboratory Testing
Unwarranted duplicate laboratory tests have been shown to increase unnecessary phlebotomy, which...
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Atrial Fibrillation: Exploring Hospitalization Drivers
The prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) is projected to double over the next 30 years and has...
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ED Return Visits: The Patient Perspective
Reducing “unnecessary” use of the hospital has become an important initiative nationwide, but...
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Why Silicon Valley Should Embrace Doctors
Innovation in healthcare blazes past technological advances in many other sectors. Spending in...
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Can Patients Chew Gum Immediately Before Surgery?
A study presented at the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) meeting in October of...
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Arrival Times & STEMI Outcomes
For patients that are presenting with ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), national...
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An Update on Secondary Stroke Prevention
In 2014, the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) updated guidelines...
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Depression & Mortality in Older Diabetics
Data indicate that patients with diabetes have almost double the risk of being depressed, when...
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Guidelines for Diagnosing OSA
Between 10% and 17% of Americans have moderate to severe sleep apnea, according to recent...
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A Question About Today’s Standard of Care
To all of my medical friends and colleagues, especially to PA’s, NP’s, and Nurses, I need some...
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Nanotechnology: Swallow the Surgeon? – Video
Nanobots could be small solutions to big problems. Brad Nelson, a mechanical engineer at ETH...
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Non-Specific Abdominal Pain: Analyzing Repeat ED Use
Research has shown that many patients in the United States present to the ED with gastrointestinal...
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Transitional Care Interventions to Prevent HF Readmissions
According to published research, heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of hospitalization and...
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“Doctor Shopping” After Orthopedic Trauma
Recent reports have shown that the negative consequences of narcotic use are increasing, and...
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MVC-Related Eye Injuries in EDs
National studies have shown that motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) are among the leading causes of...
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Exploring Outpatient Antibiotic Programs
Several years ago, New York Hospital Queens (NYHQ) opened an Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic...
Read MoreA 17-Year-Old Boy Impersonates a Doctor
In case you haven’t heard, a 17-year-old boy was discovered impersonating a doctor in a West Palm Beach, Florida hospital last month. According to one report, a patient told some staff at the hospital’s outpatient...
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A Look at Smoking Among Cancer Survivors
The 2014 Surgeon General’s Report concluded that smoking by cancer patients and survivors...
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