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October 16, 2017
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Infectious Disease
Nearly 42% of users are satisfied with their EHR systems, survey finds | Feature
Okay, what was your first reaction when you read the above headline? Mine was a tweet: “How’s this for positive spin? LOL.” Some responses to me. @cwrightmd
Conference Highlights: IDWeek 2017 | Feature
October 11, 2017
New research was presented at IDWeek 2017, the combined annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, HIV Medicine Association, and Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, from October 4 to 8 in San Diego. The features below highlight some of the studies that emerged from the conference.
#PWChat Recap – Exercise as Medicine: Helping Patients Cut Through all the Noise | News Brief
October 5, 2017
Physician’s Weekly, along with Greg Wells, PhD, co-hosted the first part of a #PWChat on how to help patients make sense of all the exercise-related information found online
CME/CE – MACRA: 5 Tips to Protect Your Practice’s Reputation | News Brief
October 3, 2017
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) is bringing a lot of change to healthcare, including reimbursement based on quality, value, and results of care. While physicians determine which MACRA measures to complete in this 2017 transition year and how they will affect payment, the same careful attention should be paid to how quality measures will affect physician reputation.
HCV Guidance Website Address Kidney Transplantation, Pregnancy and HCV in Children | News Brief
HCVguidelines.org — a website developed by the American Association of the Study for Liver Diseases and the Infectious Diseases Society of America to provide up-to-date guidance on
Why public reporting of individual surgeon outcomes should not be done | Feature
October 2, 2017
Last week Dr. Ashish K. Jha, a Harvard internist and health policy researcher, published an opinion piece in JAMA, advocating public reporting of individual surgeon outcomes
Protein That Could Improve Symptoms and Reduce Mortality in Flu | News Brief
Flu season is on its way, and a new report in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology has identified an innovative strategy for battling this deadly illness. Scientists showed that
Top 10 Cartoon Captions Submitted | News Brief
September 28, 2017
Our editors voted on the best captions submitted by your colleagues: “Your blood work results are back and your mercury levels are through the roof.” “Sal,
#PWChat – Pseudoscience in Medicine PART 2: Steering Patients Toward Reliable References | News Brief
Join us Wednesday, October 25 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Linda Girgis, MD, on how to steer patients toward reliable resources when it
#PWChat Recap – Pseudoscience in Medicine: Steering Patients Toward Reliable References | Feature
September 27, 2017
Dr. Linda Girgis, MD, FAAFP joined Physician’s Weekly to co-host another installment in our #PWChat series, on Tuesday, Sept. 26, on how to steer patients toward reliable resources
Who is to Blame for Resident’s Legal Battle with Her Program? | Feature
September 26, 2017
Our blogger, Skeptical Scalpel, recently wrote about a surgical resident’s legal battle with her program, which highlights a surgical resident who is suing St. Louis University, its
#PWChat – Exercise as Medicine: Helping Patients Cut Through all the Noise | Feature
Join us Wednesday, October 4 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Greg Wells, PhD, on how to help patients make sense of all the
CME/CE – Conference Highlights: ASM Microbe 2017 | Feature
September 20, 2017
New research was presented at ASM Microbe 2017, the combined annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology and the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, from June 1 to 5 New Orleans. The features below highlight some of the studies that emerged from the conference.
VIDEO: Could a Drug Prevent Depression & PTSD | Feature
September 17, 2017
The path to better medicine is paved with accidental yet revolutionary discoveries. In this well-told tale of how science happens, neuroscientist Rebecca Brachman shares news of a
VIDEO: A Tribute to Nurses | Feature
Carolyn Jones spent five years interviewing, photographing and filming nurses across America, traveling to places dealing with some of the nation’s biggest public health issues. She shares
Vaccine-Type HPV Rates Down for Unvaccinated Young Women | Feature
September 15, 2017
Significant decrease among unvaccinated women aged 18 to 26 years from 2009-2010 to 2013-2014
Conjunctivitis Prevalence Higher for Adult Women Than Men | Feature
Bimodal age distribution; highest rates in children younger than 7, minor mode in early adulthood
EHR Data May Beat Claims Data in Assessing Sepsis Incidence | Feature
Based on clinical data, no change seen in incidence of sepsis, combined outcome of death or discharge
Doctors Spend Almost Six Hours Per Day on EHR Tasks | Feature
Clerical and administrative tasks including order entry, billing account for almost half of hours