In a recent study by Manhattan Research, 40% of physicians said that the use of digital communication technologies– including patient portals, emailing and texting with
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Charlotte Yeh, MD, emergency physician and chief medical officer for AARP Services, herself became a hospital patient after being hit by a car while crossing
Journals provide third-party validation for research reports. If you get published in a better journal, your work will likely be perceived as having been more
A 2007 JBJS study suggested that patients who are psychologically distressed have slightly greater levels of postoperative pain following total knee arthroplasty than non-distressed patients.
JBJS welcomes Dr. Marc Swiontkowski as our new Editor-in-Chief. Dr. Swiontkowski is a trauma specialist and professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the
Dr. William Oros, a University of Tennessee Medical Center (UTMC) orthopaedic trauma surgeon, recently performed surgery on a 37-year old Western lowland gorilla with a
Physician assistants and nurse practitioners (often referred to as nonphysician practitioners, or NPPs) can be instrumental in helping physician practices speed reimbursements, increase patient satisfaction,
About 12,000 new cases of spinal cord injury occur each year. The average annual cost for patients living with spinal cord injury is more than
Physician practice management companies have re-emerged as big players in physician practice acquisition. In 2011, more than half of the purchasers of physician practices were
UK epidemiologists presenting at the annual meeting of the British Society for Rheumatology recently reported that X-ray evidence of rapid rheumatoid arthritis (RA) progression during