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It’s Open Access Week in the United States, which means it’s a chance to celebrate the accomplishments of the Open Access movement—and reinforce the need to keep fighting. We’ve come a long way, with governments, universities, and research funders all successfully pressuring publishers to improve...
Objective To characterize racial differences in receipt of low value care (services that provide little to no benefit yet have potential for harm) among older Medicare beneficiaries overall and within health systems in the United States. Design Retrospective cohort study Setting 100% Medicare fee-for-service administrative data (2016–18). Participants Black and White Medicare patients aged 65 or older as of 2016 and attributed to 595 health systems in the United States. Main outcome measures Receipt of 40 low value services among Black and White patients, with and without adjustment for pati...
Continuing our series on health literacy, this week we interview PLOS ONE Author Prof. Sandra van Dulmen, who tells us about the importance of improving clinical awareness of limited health literacy, person-centered medicine and the benefits of Open Science.
Leading comms tech provider unveils portfolio of carrier-grade wireless broadband devices to the market that are more than 3x faster than previous generations while Altiplano Open Access Solution offers programmable interface to enhance wholesale operational models.