Turnover on a medical administrative staff can be devastating. Workflow is disrupted, tasks need to be retaught, and finding a good fit can be elusive. For this and many other reasons, you should have a clear plan in place for...
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The term “captain of the ship” is one of the most misunderstood in medical malpractice law. Most...
Read MoreThe secret to offset a negative review is to balance it out with a five-star review. If you only have one review, and it’s a negative one, there’s not much you can do about it. A better approach might be to ask 30 patients who...
Read MoreAs phones turned into cameras, HIPAA created national standards to protect a patient’s sensitive health information, including their image, from being disclosed without consent. We can capture anything easily…but are we allowed...
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Gout is often linked with other comorbidities that are clustered within the metabolic syndrome,...
Read MoreIn a final report from the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Task Force, published in both the American Journal of Kidney Diseases and the Journal of the American Society of...
Read MoreWe spoke with Dr. MedLaw to discuss the recent 7:2 decision that the Supreme Court issued in its third holding on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). What was the history of this case? In 2017, the individual mandate penalty was re-...
Read MoreDuring a recent PW Podcast, Rachel Giles, MD, from Medicom Medical Publishers, spoke with Graham McMahon, MD, MMSc, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)...
Read MoreCurrent CKD definitions that do not consider age-related eGFR decline may inflate the burden of CKD in the elderly, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers compared the outcomes associated with CKD...
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“Individuals with CKD are characterized by adverse changes in physical function, which is...
Read MoreA survey by The Harris Poll shows that since the pandemic, nearly three in 10 Americans have initiated or increased their use of supplements, bringing the percentage of daily supplement users to more than 75% of adults. The poll...
Read MoreI ’ve stood in front of conferences before and made my case: Our healthcare system is per- fect. “A perfect system? Ours?” I’ll hear people murmuring, “He’s a little bit crazy.” For decades, critics of the US healthcare system...
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CKD affects more than 37 million adults in the United States and drives nearly $120 billion in...
Read MoreFor predialysis patients with CKD, those with high BMI variability have an increased risk for adverse outcomes, including mortality, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology....
Read MoreWhen we make the mistake of talking about fixing our broken system, we tend to speak of driving costs down or of achieving greater efficiencies by stressing preventive care. There’s nothing wrong with efficiencies and...
Read MoreFor patients with stage 4 CKD, a similar pattern of reduced kidney, cardiovascular, and mortality risks is seen with dapagliflozin versus placebo, with no evidence of increased risks, according to a study published in the...
Read MoreFor patients with non-dialysis CKD, with or without anemia, iron deficiency as reflected by a serum biomarker of iron stores is associated with an increased risk for all-cause mortality and major adverse cardiovascular events...
Read MorePercutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary artery bypass graf (CABG) are widely used revascularization interventions to treat atherosclerotic heart disease, but the merits of these procedures in patients with chronic...
Read More“Patients with CKD have disproportionately high cardiovascular (CV) risk,” explains L. Parker Gregg, MD, MS, “and identifying treatable novel risk factors is critical to improving long-term outcomes in this patient population.”...
Read MoreFor patients with high blood pressure (BP) and CKD who are not receiving dialysis, a systolic BP of less than 120 mm Hg measured by standard- ized technique should be targeted, according to a synopsis of the Kidney Disease:...
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