An important article was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine yesterday about the OpenNotes study, Inviting Patients to Read Their Doctors’ Notes: A Quasi-experimental Study and a Look Ahead
There are also two accompanying editorials:
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An important article was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine yesterday about the OpenNotes study, Inviting Patients to Read Their Doctors’ Notes: A Quasi-experimental Study and a Look Ahead
There are also two accompanying editorials:
A dramatic increase in surgical knee replacement has some researchers concerned that the procedure may be misused.
The ratio of Medicare patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA) jumped 99.2% between 1991 and 2010, from 31.2 procedures per 10,000 Medicare enrollees to 62.1 procedures per 10,000 enrollees, according to a new study.
"The growth in TKA should prompt consideration of whether too many (or too few) of these procedures are being performed both in aggregate and among key patient subgroups defined by race, sex, or age," the authors wrote.
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — The benefits of gastric bypass surgery on severely obese patients lasted an average of 6 years following the procedure, according to a new study.
Patients not only experienced significant weight loss, but had lower rates of diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol, researchers reported.
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) enrolled the 1st of thousands of patients in its latest study, designed to analyze standards of care for heart failure patients in emerging markets.
The study includes about 10 hospitals in each of the target countries: India, Bangladesh, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Russia, Hungary and China.
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) is looking to re-energize its early-stage deal-making with the launch of 4 new international innovation centers, fully equipped with J&J science and technology experts focused on emerging opportunities.
HeartFlow’s non-invasive fractional flow reserve technology failed to meet pre-determined rates of accuracy in a recent clinical trial, but researchers and clinicians remained optimistic that the new system may yet replace invasive testing for coronary artery disease.
In the DeFACTO study, which enrolled more than 250 patients, FFR based on computed tomography imaging beat invasive FFR in identifying lesions and produced higher per-patient sensitivity.
By Tom Ulrich
At the start of the 2009 Star Trek reboot (this is relevant, trust me), the USS Kelvin’s captain meets the enemy on their ship to try to negotiate a cease-fire. His crew uses a kind of sensing technology to track his vital signs—like heart rate, breathing, body temperature—right up to the moment of his untimely demise.
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Medical errors in the intensive care unit may kill as many as 40,500 patients per year, putting diagnostics on par with breast cancer for patient mortality, according to a new study.
The problem is pervasive yet under-appreciated, researchers concluded based on studies of more than 5,800 autopsy reports from a wide variety of ICU types.