Nov 03, 2014

The Particulars: The roles of sociodemographics, lung function, smoking status, and comorbid diseases have been included in models investigating health status and health-related quality of life in pat...

Nov 03, 2014

The Particulars: Most studies of motion detectors for measuring physical activity in patients with COPD have explored devices placed near the center of the body. Researchers hypothesize that a monitor...

Nov 03, 2014

The Particulars: Previous studies have found that patients who use a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device often feel it makes them less sexually attractive and are therefore less likely t...

Nov 03, 2014

The Particulars: Multiple advances have been made in the treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in the past 20 years. However, assessments of ARDS-related mortality during this period...

Nov 03, 2014

The Particulars: A portable noninvasive open ventilation system has been shown in previous research to significantly improve respiratory muscle unloading, dyspnea, and exercise tolerance. The impact o...

Nov 03, 2014

New research is being presented at CHEST 2014, the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians, from October 25 to 30 in Austin, TX.   Meeting Highlights Portable Ventila...

Oct 28, 2014

Recently, I was asked for personal advice on using Twitter. There are many articles out there that say we (physicians) don't know how to properly use social media. Social media can be a very powerful ...

Oct 24, 2014

Hospital patients and providers are often unaware of the fees that come with most medical services. “The healthcare system is oftentimes not transparent in actual costs for these services,” says L...

Oct 24, 2014

In 2006, the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and European Respiratory Society (ERS) released a joint statement on pulmonary rehabilitation, a comprehensive, interdisciplinary intervention that had bee...

Oct 24, 2014

About 10 years ago, researchers validated the BODE index—which stands for BMI, airflow obstruction, dyspnea, and exercise capacity—as a prognostic mortality risk tool for patients with COPD (Table...

Oct 13, 2014

Growth in the nursing workforce between 2000 and 2008 to 2010 outpaced the growth of the United States population. ...

Oct 10, 2014

The Particulars: The United States government’s Healthy People 2020 initiative set a goal of reducing antimicrobial-resistant invasive pneumococcal disease from 9.3 to 6.0 cases per 100,000 children...

Oct 01, 2014

Healthcare is a hot topic in the media these days. Yet, few people are satisfied with the way it is working. Many claim that the American healthcare system is broken. Patients are increasingly frustra...

Sep 22, 2014

A surgeon emailed me the following:. OK, I know this is radical but consider my argument... Medical licensing protects no one and costs physicians hundreds to thousands of dollars each year. If...

Sep 19, 2014

Crowding in the ED has been well-established as a problem that poses a threat to public health. Studies show that ED and hospital crowding leads to ambulance diversions, medical errors, delayed care, ...

Sep 17, 2014

Medicine 2064 With Dr. Daniel Kraft Curing half of the world's known cancers, granting movement to the paralyzed, preventing Alzheimer's. Visionary medical expert Dr. Daniel Kraft believes all ...

Sep 16, 2014

As physicians, we have all been faced with patients inappropriately looking for prescriptions for controlled substances. Some are looking to abuse them and some to divert them for profit. It is often ...

Aug 13, 2014

Since the 1980s, studies have shown that clinicians frequently raise questions during patient encounters in all healthcare settings. These studies have suggested that although questions arise frequent...

Aug 12, 2014

Any physician, especially primary care physicians, can tell you that they are frequently forced to make a decision based on a third party’s opinion. Most often, this will be an insurance company den...

Aug 08, 2014

Medscape’s Residents Salary & Debt Report 2014 was just released this week, surveying over 1,200 medical residents across more than 25 specialty residency programs. The survey focused on medical...