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Our COVID-19: Recovery and resilience healthcare report is helping #healthcare organisations build and sustain change that supports a strong recovery from the current pandemic.
Read more here: ow.ly/cqQY50CBQVH
#KPMGhealthcare
Healthcare Policy retweeted
How @WhiteHouse can address drug prices:
-allow Medicare to negotiate prices
-establish commission to recommend prices for high-cost drugs
-limit price increases to inflation
-address generics & biosimilar markets
ja.ma/30B8Zxi @akesselheim @PORTAL_Research
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Integrated care can help both hospitals and the patients themselves but isn’t a quick fix for #healthcare @HealthFdn
Can integrated care reduce hospital use? Yes, but it can take time.
Our #ImprovementAnalytics Unit analysis finds that integrated care programmes can reduce hospital use over the longer term, even if there are short-term increases.
Read the briefing: health.org.uk/publications/r…
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This review focuses on the epidemiologic and clinical features of covid-19, inpatient respiratory support, and the evidence to date on drug treatments. It also covers the recovery and long term management of patients with covid-19 pneumonia #BMJEducation
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Newly published multicentre, international prospective cohort study comparing postoperative outcomes (including disease stage, complications and mortality), in patients who underwent surgery for primary breast, colorectal, or gastric cancer across 428 hospitals in 82 countries.
NEW—The global demand for cancer surgery is set to grow by almost 5 million procedures within 20 years, with the greatest burden in low-income countries, suggest studies published in @TheLancet and @TheLancetOncol. Read: hubs.li/H0FdPDm0 & hubs.li/H0FdPDn0
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While #COVID19 vaccines have shown to clearly prevent infections, researchers need more time to figure out whether they prevent transmission. What factors will determine herd immunity?
Blog: wrld.bg/tarC50EmF7v
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It's all about airflow. Also, conditions at the airport and while getting to the airport matter.
nyti.ms/3gysa45
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NEW: After a dip over the Easter bank holiday weekend, the number of people being tested for #COVID19 increased by 15% to 4.4m in w/e 14 April, but this is still some way off the peak of 6.2m four weeks earlier.
Read our analysis of latest #NHSTT stats 🔽 health.org.uk/news-and-comme…
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.@VCUHealth’s implementation of aggressive, bundled multilevel infection prevention measures resulted in a tenfold decrease in #SARSCoV2 transmission in the health care setting: catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/1…
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On-premises restaurant dining has been associated w increases in daily #COVID19 case growth rates 41-100 d after implementation & increases in daily death growth rates 61-100 d after implementation. Changes over time amplify exponentially ja.ma/3dRjSS0 @CDCgov @CDCMMWR
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When Covid-19 arrived, years of coronavirus work had already been done that laid a foundation we could quickly repurpose for vaccine work with this new variant. youtube.com/watch?v=f6aBJ1wY…
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Looking to improve #maternalhealth outcomes for people of color? This paper examines models for delivering #maternitycare that could improve outcomes and reduce racial inequities in maternal morbidity and mortality. buff.ly/3sdXgAd #BMHW21
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Medical school doesn't teach you how to hold good online consultations ― this good #BMJ guide helps pull #medicine into the #DigitalHealth era, with #Covid19 as the catalyst accelerating overdue change linkedin.com/posts/dredwardf… ⬇️ – at Bermuda
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How technology is being used to address #healthinequity and to accelerate vaccine rollouts social.kpmg/s97yu
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How urban public health care system @SF_DPH delivers #Covid19vaccine to the communities that have experienced the highest burden of disease: catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/1… #HealthEquity @racheljstern @elainekhoong @MAHandley @ucsfcvp @ImSatUCSF @ucsfdgimzsfg
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Even before the pandemic, many Americans with depression, anxiety, or other #mentalhealth problems did not get treatment because of provider shortages, lack of insurance, and an absence of treatment models that worked for them. buff.ly/2PgsiK9
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There's a lot of misinformation out there, so let's talk about vaccine development, both in general and in the context of the current pandemic. youtube.com/watch?v=f6aBJ1wY…