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Nursing
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AI facilitates collaboration between physicians and nurses for improved patient care
With large language models that take notes during patient visits and algorithms that identify disease, artificial intelligence has…
April 16, 2024
Research shows the importance of ‘family’ bonds in care homes
Care home residents receive much better care when they enjoy ‘family’ bonds with staff – but staff must…
April 16, 2024
Quality dementia care in nursing homes: Lessons from the pandemic
No one associated with nursing homes – as residents or their families, friends, staff or administrators – is…
April 12, 2024
Attack of the Medicare machines
Covering the American health care system means we tell some scary stories. This episode of “An Arm and…
April 10, 2024
Florida limits abortion — for now
The host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF…
April 4, 2024
For-profit companies open psychiatric hospitals in areas clamoring for care
A for-profit company has proposed turning a boarded-up former nursing home here into a psychiatric hospital, joining a…
April 1, 2024
Unhoused people face elevated dementia rates compared to general population
Dementia in unhoused people was 1.9 times greater than the general population, with a higher prevalence for age…
March 28, 2024
After Appalachian hospitals merged into a monopoly, their ERs slowed to a crawl
In the small Appalachian city of Bristol, Virginia, City Council member Neal Osborne left a meeting on the…
March 25, 2024
Rapid rise in syphilis hits Native Americans hardest
From her base in Gallup, New Mexico, Melissa Wyaco supervises about two dozen public health nurses who crisscross…
March 21, 2024
UQ study aims to understand experiences of ADHD in adult women
Women diagnosed in adulthood with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are encouraged to join a University of Queensland…
March 20, 2024