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Medical News Today: What can you do to reduce fibroid pain?

Many people with uterine fibroids have no symptoms, but others may experience pain and abnormal vaginal bleeding. For some people living with fibroids, the pain is intense enough to interfere with daily life. Uterine fibroids are noncancerous growths that form inside the uterus. They can grow quite large and cause pain and pressure. Fibroid pain… Read More: Medical News Today: What can you do to reduce fibroid… »

Report: Health IT improvements needed to reduce clinician burnout

With clinician burnout at epidemic levels, the U.S. healthcare system must make health information technology easier to use in an increasingly stressful work environment. That’s among the recommendations of a new National Academy of Medicine report, which finds that the rates of burnout among clinicians are alarming. NAM blames the fact that between one-third and… Read More: Report: Health IT improvements needed to reduce clinician burnout »

How are hospitals supposed to reduce readmissions? Part II

By KIP SULLIVAN, JD The notion that hospitals can reduce readmissions, and that punishing them for “excess” readmissions will get them to do that, became conventional wisdom during the 2000s on the basis of very little evidence. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) urged Congress to enact the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) beginning in… Read More: How are hospitals supposed to reduce readmissions? Part II »