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Uncategorized Published - 27 January, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Study: Medicare spent $2.6 billion in 2018 on undelivered post-op visits

Author: TARA BANNOW Modern Healthcare A new CMS-funded study suggests surgeons are overpaid for certain bundled procedures and proposes a solution it says could save the agency billions of dollars annually. The New England Journal of Medicine report found that just a fraction of post-operative visits the CMS pays for as part of procedure bundles […]

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Uncategorized Published - 27 January, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Inside Google’s Quest for Millions of Medical Records

By  Rob Copeland, Dana Mattioli and Melanie Evans The Wall Street Journal Roughly a year ago, Google offered health-data company Cerner Corp. an unusually rich proposal. Cerner was interviewing Silicon Valley giants to pick a storage provider for 250 million health records, one of the largest collections of U.S. patient data. Google dispatched former chief executive Eric Schmidt […]

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Uncategorized Published - 27 January, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Opioids for chronic low back pain: An updated systematic review and meta‐analysis of efficacy, tolerability and safety in randomized placebo‐controlled studies of at least 4 weeks of double‐blind duration

Authors: Frank Petzke et al European Journal of Pain December 2019 Background and Objective This updated systematic review evaluated the efficacy, tolerability and safety of opioids compared to placebo in non‐malignant chronic low back pain. Databases and Data Treatment Clinicaltrials.gov, CENTRAL, MEDLINE and PsycINFO were searched from October 2013 to May 2019. Randomized controlled trials […]

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Uncategorized Published - 24 January, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Neuromuscular blocking agents for tracheal intubation in pediatric patients

Authors: Luc E. Vanlinthout et al Pediatric Anesthesia Dec 2019 Background The benefit of using neuromuscular blocking agents to facilitate tracheal intubation in children remains unclear due to variations in design, treatments, and results among trials. By combining the available evidence, we aimed to establish whether scientific findings are consistent and can be generalized across […]

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Uncategorized Published - 24 January, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Comparison of ropivacaine combined with sufentanil for epidural anesthesia and spinal-epidural anesthesia in labor analgesia

Authors: Yanshuang Wang et al BMC Anesthesiology volume 20, Article number: 1 (2020) Background To compare the application and efficacy of ropivacaine combined with sufentanil for continuous epidural anesthesia (CEA) and combined spinal-epidural anesthesia (CSEA) in labor analgesia. Methods Three hundred sixty pregnant women requesting labor analgesia from October 2017 to August 2018 were selected retrospectively. According to the anesthetic […]

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