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Primary care clinics that improved patient access, identified at-risk patients and expanded services experienced reductions in acute hospitalizations

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Researchers from Mathematica studied high-performing Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) sites to identify key strategies that contributed to significant reductions in acute hospitalization rates.

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Decrease Seen in Non-COVID-19-Related Hospitalizations at Peak

The Pharma Data

27, 2020 — There was a decrease in the frequency of hospitalizations for non- COVID-19 -related conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the caseloads of common medical emergencies, according to two research letters published online Oct. TUESDAY, Oct. 26 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Saul Blecker, M.D., Saul Blecker, M.D.,

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Adverse Drug Reactions Linked to Hydroxychloroquine Up in 2020

The Pharma Data

27, 2021 — The number of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) associated with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine more than doubled in 2020 compared with 2018 and 2019, according to a research letter published online Jan. 1, 2018, to Sept. percent in 2018 and 2019, respectively. percent in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

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Perficient Mentioned in Two Forrester Reports on Tech-Enabled Clinician Experiences

Perficient: Drug Development

According to Forrester, “Investment in hospital equipment will grow from $36 billion in 2018 to $262 billion in 2028. And that’s easy to understand due to the plethora of available options and new solutions entering the market each day. Yet, HCPs often purchase technology on a team-by-team basis.”

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Lockdowns May Be Keeping Kids’ Asthma Attacks at Bay: Study

The Pharma Data

Boston Children’s Hospital’s emergency department (ED) observed a steep decline in asthma-related emergency visits last spring. 5 to May 23 in three separate years: 2018, 2019 and 2020. They found that the percent of total emergency visits due to asthma was lower in 2020 than in 2018 and 2019. FRIDAY, Dec.

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U.S. Health Care Spending Increased 4.6 Percent in 2019

The Pharma Data

percent in 2019, which was a similar rate of growth as that seen in 2018, according to a report published online Dec. trillion ($11,582 per person), which was similar to the growth rate experienced in 2018 (4.7 percent for 2018. Health Care Spending Increased 4.6 Percent in 2019. TUESDAY, Jan. 16 in Health Affairs.

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A scientist devotes her career to tackling inequity in genomics

Broad Institute

Her parents were terrified, and the family spent the next few years in and out of the hospital. Alicia Martin and attendees of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust/GINGER Bioinformatics training in Kilifi, Kenya in September 2018. Chan School of Public Health at the 2018 GINGER workshop in London, UK. He passed away at the age of three.

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