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 E-Mail Machine learning can be used to comb through online reviews of substance use treatment facilities to home in on qualities that are important to patients but remain hard to capture via formal means, such as surveys, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania show. The researchers found that professionalism and staff dedication to patients were two of the top qualities that could be attributed to either a negative or positive review of the facility. Findings from this study were published today in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. "Sear...

A study finds that obtaining specialized geriatric care may be harder for rural and lower-income patients.

UCLA RESEARCH BRIEF UCLA Health The findings suggest that physicians should spend more time explaining medication side effects to ensure their older patients are fully informed. Enrique Rivero | FINDINGS Older people correctly ascertained basic information such as dosage and duration of use for more than 70% of the medications they were prescribed, regardless of whether their physician explained it during an office visit. But when physicians failed to verbally provide information about potential side effects, people incorrectly assumed that about 55% of their prescribed medications ...

Study Examines Changes in Fracture-related Prescription Use by Angela Mohan on  February 17, 2021 at 11:27 AM Journal of General Internal Medicine. In recent decades, the use of prescription medications has increased dramatically in the U.S. due to factors such as improvements in the ability to detect disease, expanding treatment options, and an aging population. For many Americans over age 65, these medications provide an effective means of managing disease and improving quality of life and longevity. However, many commonly prescribed drugs--such as opioid pain killers, sl...

By making it the default to send screening tests to patients’ homes unless they opted out via text message, screening rates increased by more than 1000%.