Physicians are prescribing more opioid painkillers than ever before to patients undergoing common surgeries, according to new research from the department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Their work, published in JAMA, simultaneously with a major new guideline from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
Study: Heath Insurance Sites Demystify Options
Websites for national and state health insurance marketplaces show evidence of improved efforts to assist patients in choosing health insurance plans, such as providing decision support tools, experts from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have found. However, in a letter published in the Aug. 18 issue the Annals of Internal Medicine, the…
Health Policy Researchers Lack Confidence in Social Media for Communication
Tweeting, blogging, Facebook viewed as professionally higher risk than traditional media Philadelphia – Though Twitter boats 645 million users across the world, only 14 percent of health policy researchers reported using Twitter – and approximately 20 percent used blogs and Facebook – to communicate their research findings over the past year, according to a new…