Tag: outcome

Personalized perioperative pain management reduces opioid use

Editor's Note Inadequate acute pain care often sets the stage for chronic pain—and tackling this gap starts with reducing opioids and deploying multimodal care strategies. That’s the main takeaway from an April 22 MedCentral interview with Marie N. Hanna, MD, division chief for regional anesthesia and acute pain management, and…

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By: Matt Danford
April 24, 2025
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CMS vision shifts as agency halts funding for state programs

Editor's Note The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will no longer approve federal matching funds for designated state health programs (DSHPs) and designated state investment programs (DSIPs) that are not directly related to Medicaid services. According to the April 10 announcement, the decision aims to preserve the core…

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By: Matt Danford
April 11, 2025
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Study: Preoperative VR reduces ICU sedation, ventilator time

Editor's Note A recent study shows potentially significant promise for preoperative virtual reality (VR) simulation to improve surgical patient outcomes. Published March 1 in the American Journal of Critical Care, the research details how VR reduced ICU sedation and ventilator time for patients undergoing elective cardiothoracic surgery. Although the program…

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By: Matt Danford
April 7, 2025
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Study: Excessive nurse overtime, agency staffing harm patients

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Editor's Note Overreliance on overtime and agency nurse staffing can significantly increase the risk of pressure ulcers and, in the case of agency hours, perioperative hemorrhage or hematoma, according to research published April 2 in JAMA Network Open.   Using data from 70 US hospitals between 2019 and 2022, researchers…

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By: Matt Danford
April 3, 2025
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Study: Mechanical heart valves outperform biological for long-term survival in middle-aged patients

Editor's Note Patients aged 50 to 70 undergoing heart valve replacement may benefit from mechanical valves over biological ones, according to a new study from the University of Bristol. Healthcare-in-Europe.com reported the news February 13. As detailed in the article, short-term outcomes between the two options were similar. However, mechanical…

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By: Matt Danford
February 14, 2025
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Healing healthcare: How clinician incentives can help get from volume to value

Takeaways • Although the central tenets of value-based healthcare have not changed, in many cases implementation has been reduced to little more than reducing costs, to the detriment of clinicians and patients. • The right incentives, such as recognition and work support, can effectively inspire clinicians to deliver high value…

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By: Carina Stanton
January 31, 2025
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Study links high surgeon stress, positive patient outcomes

Editor's Note Optimizing surgeon stress could enhance surgical performance and patient outcomes, according to a large cohort study published January 15 in JAMA Surgery. Researchers focused particularly on physiological markers of surgeon stress during the first 5 minutes of a procedure, revealing a significant inverse relationship with major patient complications.…

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By: Matt Danford
January 22, 2025
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Wildfire smoke poses long-term health threats

Editor's Note The wildfire smoke blanketing the Los Angeles region poses significant longer-term health and economic consequences, according to a January 10 article in Bloomberg. Already, the fires have displaced nearly 180,000 people and cost up to $20 million in insured losses, the outlet reports. What remains to be seen…

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By: Matt Danford
January 13, 2025
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Study: Esophagectomy outcomes worse at private equity hospitals

Editor's Note A study published in JAMA Surgery revealed that hospitals owned by private equity firms had significantly worse outcomes for esophagectomy patients compared to non-acquired hospitals. As detailed in a January 2 report on the findings in MedPage Today, the analysis of over 9,000 cases highlights disparities in 30-day…

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By: Matt Danford
January 7, 2025
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Study: Active monitoring without surgery safe for certain low-risk DCIS patients

Editor's Note Active monitoring for certain breast cancer patients offers similar outcomes to surgery with fewer side effects, according to research detailed in a December 16 article from Oncology News Central. Presented at the 2024 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium and published in JAMA, The COMET trial supports the safety…

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By: Matt Danford
December 16, 2024
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