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Anchor lead: Why don’t urgent care centers reduce ED crowding? Elizabeth Tracey reports When people seek medical care in the ED they often face lengthy waits, and urgent care centers, frequently located adjacent to emergency departments, were supposed to be …
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Anchor lead: Urgent care centers haven’t taken the heat off emergency departments, Elizabeth Tracey reports Urgent care centers were heralded as the answer to emergency department overcrowding and lengthy delays in treatment for those who went there, but a recent …
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Anchor lead: The Surgeon General has issued a report on substance abuse, Elizabeth Tracey reports Use of opioids is just one of the issues in the recently released Surgeon General’s report on addiction, which also covers multiple other drugs, including …
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Anchor lead: Is there a statin in your future? Elizabeth Tracey reports The USPSTF, the federal task force charged with reviewing scientific data and making healthcare recommendations based on available evidence, has issued new guidelines for the use of statins. …
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Anchor lead: How do some types of pain relievers effect your heart? Elizabeth Tracey reports A study presented at the recent American Heart Association meeting comparing the pain relievers celecoxib or Celebrex, naproxen and ibuprofen for people with chronic arthritis …
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Anchor lead: Outcomes are better when nurses are more educated, Elizabeth Tracey reports Hospitals staffed with more nurse assistants relative to those with more registered nurses see many more adverse outcomes for patients, a recent study in the British Medical …
