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In a randomized controlled trial at three US hospitals over six months in 2021, the researchers randomized 30 attendings to prioritize seeing patients who were expected to be discharged that day before seeing other patients. Marisha Burden, MD, FACP, a professor of medicine and division head of hospital medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, and Angela Keniston, MSPH, an assistant professor and director of data and analytics for the division of hospital medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, discuss the study’s findings.

Some cans of Bumble Bee, Chicken of the Sea, StarKist, Safe Catch, and Wild Planet tuna contained higher than usual mercury levels, despite the average level being within standards.

This physician sounds the alarm on CDC’s ill-founded mandates for mandatory masking, citing the recent Cochrane Review.

Healthgrades communicates performance in two ways—through ratings and awards—to assist consumers in evaluating and comparing hospital performance specific to specialist service lines and speciality emphasis areas. Using Medicare inpatient data from the Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) file purchased from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for the years 2019 through 2021, hospitals were evaluated for overall clinical excellence and measure performance. Data on patient outcomes for 31 diseases or treatments were examined for almost all hospitals in the nation. Also, with the fewest occurrences of 14 avoidable patient safety events, hospitals in the top 10% of the country are honored with the Patient Safety Excellence Award, and analyzing data from surveys of the hospital’s own patients to evaluate patient experience across 10 metrics, the top 15% of hospitals receive the Outstanding Patient Experience Award. Finally, each year, Healthgrades recognizes hospitals in the United States that offer the most common gynecologic treatments and where patients are at a decreased risk of complications during their stay for labor and delivery.

This 70-study meta analysis concludes that the evidence is moderate to high that bisphosphonates and denosumab reduce the risk for hip, vertebral, and other fractures. The evidence is moderate to high that abaloparatide and teriparatide reduce clinical fractures and radiographic vertebral fractures, and low to moderate that SERMs reduce radiographic vertebral fractures, but not clinical fractures.