The discussion was moderated by William B. Jordan, MD, MPH, who is senior director of equity policy and transformation at the AMA Center for Health Equity. Panelists examined the quality of care older-adult physicians provide, how age-related biases affect older-adult physicians, and how ageism affects patients’ care experience.
KERA News: What is palliative care? How it can improve quality of life for patients with serious illness
What is palliative care? How it can improve quality of life for patients with serious illness
Business Wire: New Study Finds Senior Patients Managed by Women Physicians in a Value-Based Care (VBC) Model Have Equal or Better Clinical and Quality Outcomes and Less Healthcare Utilization
New Study Finds Senior Patients Managed by Women Physicians in a Value-Based Care (VBC) Model Have Equal or Better Clinical and Quality Outcomes and Less Healthcare Utilization
McKnight's Long-Term Care News: Dementia patients less likely to receive high-quality home healthcare, study finds
Older Medicare patients with dementia are less likely to receive high-quality home healthcare than those without dementia, with significant variations in the quality of care for dementia patients ...
ascopubs.org: Quality of care (QoC) measures among patients with high-risk non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (HR-NMIBC) who are unresponsive to bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) treatment ...
Quality of care (QoC) measures among patients with high-risk non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (HR-NMIBC) who are unresponsive to bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) treatment ...
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines and how to take charge of their health through preventive care.
Getting patients to make healthy lifestyle choices ranks high on every physician’s professional wish list. But realistically accomplishing this goal requires care teams to zero in on what really patients really want.
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines. Three physicians took time to discuss what doctors wish patients knew about vitamins and nutritional supplements. They are: Pieter Cohen, MD, an internist in Somerville ...
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines and how to take charge of their health through preventive care. For this installment, two AMA members shared what doctors wish patients knew about sodium consumption. They are:
Patients in their final weeks or months of life can turn to hospice care to manage their transition. But until then, patients have another option to help them live with serious illnesses. KERA’s Sam ...
University of California, San Francisco: How to Improve Advance Care Planning for Patients and Caregivers
In recognition of “National Healthcare Decisions Day,” the “PREPARE for Your Care” program at UC San Francisco is making it easier for clinicians to remind their patients of the importance of planning ...
Healthcare Finance News: CVS Health, Cleveland Clinic expand clinical affiliation through quality alliance, EHR communication
MobiHealthNews: Buoy Health, CVS MinuteClinic partner to send patients from chatbot to care
Buoy Health, CVS MinuteClinic partner to send patients from chatbot to care
Penn Live: Central Pa. CVS transforms into healthcare hub for Medicare patients
Knox TN Today: Fair Rx would restore fairness and quality care to Tennessee’s pharmacy system
Fair Rx would restore fairness and quality care to Tennessee’s pharmacy system
Medical Xpress: Silence in health care still kills: Communication failures continue to threaten patients and health care innovation
Cultures of silence among health care professionals remain a significant threat to patients and health care innovation, according to results from a national survey of more than 3,500 clinicians and ...
Silence in health care still kills: Communication failures continue to threaten patients and health care innovation
Stay on top of the latest developments related to patient education. Browse the AMA’s patient education resources, full of information and tools that physicians can share with their patients, including educational handouts for patients and other patient education materials.
For this installment, three AMA members took time to discuss what doctors wish patients knew about the potentially harmful effects of social media. They are: Nusheen Ameenuddin, MD, MPH, a pediatrician in Rochester, Minnesota, and chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Communications and Media.
Patients with Meniere’s disease “will have episodes of vertigo, usually lasting half an hour to a couple of hours that can be very intense and incapacitating and unpredictable, but they almost always have a symptom of hearing loss or ringing in their ear either immediately before or during the onset of vertigo,” he said.
Public Health Prevention & Wellness What doctors wish patients knew about iron deficiency One in three women under 50 is iron deficient, affecting about 10 million people in the U.S. Two physicians discuss iron deficiency and how to address it.
(Aging Untold) — More than 60 million Americans provide care for a family member. Most are women, and over half are 50 or older. Because caregiving is so demanding, many skip checkups, lose sleep, and ...
WESTERVILLE, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--agilon health (NYSE: AGL), the trusted partner empowering physicians to transform health care in our communities, today announced the publication of new ...
The Wall Street Journal devotes its Journal Report section Jan. 23 to pro and con debates on six health care issues. Five are reasonable and either timely or timeless: Should everyone be required to ...
Crain's Chicago Business: Rush looks to CVS Minute Clinics to expand primary care
Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Rush Health wants to expand its network of primary care ...
CVS Health and Cleveland Clinic are expanding their eight-year clinical affiliation, building on the relationship between MinuteClinic and Cleveland Clinic to enhance care for Northeast Ohio and ...
CVS Health, Cleveland Clinic expand clinical affiliation through quality alliance, EHR communication
Unmet needs and treatment perspectives of patients (pts) with previously treated small cell lung cancer (SCLC): A global, qualitative interview study. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ...