Health Care Workers Show Greatest COVID-19 Stress
Findings compared to other occupational categories, but across occupations, women had high levels of stress, with age acting as a protective factor.
Practice Management
Two-Hour OGTT Can Predict Future Episodic Memory Decline
Higher value on OGTT at baseline linked to worse performance and greater decline in word-list delayed recall test.
Lower Inpatient Mortality With Treating Physicians Who Work More Clinical Days
However, no differences seen in readmission based on number of physician days worked.
Communication Skills Affect Patient-Provider Relationships and Patient Outcomes
Investigators reviewed the connection between communication skills and patient satisfaction and offered recommendations for improving the patient-provider relationship.
Mortality Risk Higher for Transgender Individuals Taking Hormones
Increased mortality risk, which did not decrease over time, seems largely attributable to causes of death not associated with hormone treatment.
High Viral Load in Lungs Linked to COVID-19 Mortality
No association seen for acquisition of hospital-acquired respiratory pathogen with fatal outcomes for patients with COVID-19.
FDA Bans Sale of Nearly a Million E-Cigarettes
However, Juul products will remain on the market for now.
COVID-19 Cases Rise Sharply Among Children as School Year Starts
While cases declined in early summer, they have ‘increased exponentially’ recently, with more than a fivefold increase in the past month.
Women, Minority Groups Still Lagging in Clinical Faculty Positions
Racial and ethnic diversity grew more slowly than representation of women in U.S. academic medicine from 1990 through 2019.
Health Care Disproportionately Spent on White Americans
White Americans benefit from greater than average spending on preventive care versus non-White populations.
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