Emergency department physicians are frustrated and burned out from treating patients who frequent the ED for their care, according to a survey of physicians from across the country.
The survey found that 59 percent of physicians acknowledged having less empathy for so-called frequent users than other patients, and 77 percent held bias for frequent users. Physicians [...]
Advances in public health in this first decade of the 21st Century have contributed to a record low death rate in the U.S. and the continuation of a steady downward trend.
From 1999 to 2009, the age-adjusted death rate in the United States declined from 881.9 per 100,000 population to 741.0, a record low.
Contributing factors for [...]
Positive comments made by a doctor during the physical examination of a child seen for a viral upper respiratory tract infection can markedly reduce the percentage of patients who receive an inappropriate antibiotic prescription, a new study suggests.
Viruses, which do not respond to antibiotics, cause more than two-thirds of upper respiratory tract infections or URIs, [...]
Cell phones used by patients and their visitors were twice as likely to contain potentially dangerous bacteria as those of healthcare workers, according to a new study.
A team of researchers from the Department of Medical Microbiology at Inonu University in Malatya, Turkey collected swab samples from three parts of cell phones — the keypad, microphone [...]