Topic: Health Care
Hospital Financial-Aid Programs Boost Use of Vital Health Care
Uninsured and insured both receive help; benefits are temporary
Hospital Hand-Washing: The Limits of Electronic Monitoring
The anti-infection procedure rises for a time, when workers are watched, and then falls off
How Antitrust Thinking on Hospital Mergers Has Been Forced to Evolve
Matt Schmitt’s research shows hospital prices rise after acquisitions, even where local competition is unchanged
How Medical Device Makers Reacted to Publication of a Once-Secret Database of Millions of Adverse Events
New product filings to FDA included stronger safety features and larger technological advances
How Nursing Homes Selectively Admit Patients for Optimal Profits
When beds are limited, turning away the sickest and poorest boosts margins
How Publicly Funded Research Leads to Cancer Drug Trials
Pharmaceutical companies are better able to identify promising new applications for existing drugs
Huge Spending — But Little Sharing of Research Results — on Cancer Drugs
U.S. efforts to encourage transparency widely ignored by companies
Kidney Transplant Outcomes Suffer at Clinics That Add Liver Transplants
Younger-patient mortality rate nearly triples, 20 years of data indicate
Like Checking the Weather: Air-Quality App Charts Local Pollution
Information helps users decide when, and whether, to venture outside or exercise
Link Between Unvaccinated Staff and Nursing Home Deaths
Higher morbidity found where fewer staffers are vaccinated against COVID-19
Machine Learning Can Help Reduce Post-Surgical Hospital Readmissions
A model outperformed simpler statistical approaches in predicting which patients would encounter trouble
Mandated Disclosure of Clinical Trials Ignored — Especially for Competitive Drugs
Pharma companies less likely to disclose critical drug information than public institutions
Maximizing Life Saving through Better Placement of Defibrillators
Just putting one where the last cardiac arrest occurred isn’t optimal — more calculations to get to fewer steps
Medical Debt in Collection Estimated at $140 Billion
Poorer residents of states refusing to expand Medicaid hit hardest
Medicare Could Save by Subsidizing Providers’ Capital Spending
Projects that make health care delivery more efficient require upfront financial help
Medicare Ratings Didn’t Predict Nursing Homes’ Initial COVID-19 Vulnerability
Rate of spread in the surrounding community was a bigger indicator of risk