This JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis summarizes the American Head and Neck Society’s 2021 consensus statement on care of survivors of head and neck cancer.
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The authors of this Viewpoint argue that the focus on hospital readmission rates as a measure of quality during the past decade, although undoubtedly leading to some improvements in care, has had minimal demonstrable benefit and has even distracted clinicians and health system leaders from other crucial quality concerns.
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This Medical News article is an interview with Nahid Bhadelia, MD, MALD, the White House COVID-19 Response Team’s senior policy advisor for Global COVID Response.
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This JAMA Patient Page describes pulmonary embolism signs and symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, and treatment options.
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This Viewpoint discusses the potential benefits and harms of prior authorization in Medicare Advantage and the health policy implications and opportunities for improvement.
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This Viewpoint explains how a recent Supreme Court decision clarifies rules for prescribing controlled substances so that patients are not denied appropriate care and physicians are not unjustly prosecuted.
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This study uses electronic medical record data to describe monkeypox infections after a single dose of Modified Vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic vaccine, a live, nonreplicating vaccine indicated for prevention of smallpox and monkeypox infection in adults.
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This Viewpoint discusses ways in which free time during patient visits, resulting from removal of tradition- and reimbursement-driven care in favor of more evidence-based care, could be used to achieve better health outcomes based on recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force evidence-based preventive care.
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This medical news feature discusses the challenges of treating pregnant patients diagnosed with cancer following the reversal of Roe v Wade.
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In this Viewpoint, 2022 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award winner Y. M. Dennis Lo discusses his discovery and application of cell-free fetal DNA for noninvasive prenatal testing.
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