Downgrades of short inpatient stays to observation status by recovery audit contractors can lead to big losses in reimbursement. This is forcing hospitals to look more closely at their patient-status ...

Assessing an eHealth Intervention on Quality of Life in Patients With Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndromes: The MyPal Randomized Controlled Trial In the companion to this article ...

Patients with ECOG performance status of 1 reported worse global health status, quality of life, and physical functioning than those with a status of 0. The RATIONALE-305 trial showed Tevimbra plus ...

Using Music as a Tool for Distress Reduction During Cancer Chemotherapy Treatment Future work should aim to improve patient adherence to remote patient-reported outcome and activity data collection ...

Doylestown Health is using a platform developed by XSOLIS to help nurses stay on top of fast-changing patient conditions and ensure each patient is properly classified and cared for. For all their ...

The lack of the correct patient discharge status code has been cited by Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) as a problem in the claims of inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs). The problem is ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Queen’s Health System unveiled a new command center in Makiki to monitor its patients across the islands — and statewide hospital capacity. Healthcare leaders say the $4 ...

Psoriasis status from time of diagnosis to initiation of current treatment was less favorable for patients with mild psoriasis compared with moderate psoriasis, according to one study. A recent poster ...

When a patient is admitted to the hospital in the U.S., there’s a standard question physicians like me are supposed to ask: “If your heart stops beating, do you want us to do CPR?” On the surface, ...

California is advising health care providers not to write down patients’ immigration status on bills and medical records and telling them they don’t have to assist federal agents in arrests. Some ...