It will be no surprise to quality professionals that research shows that patients who lack the skills and confidence to manage their own healthcare often require more of it and incur higher healthcare costs.
In a Boston-based survey of travelers, 19% of individuals who were born in, had lived in, or traveled to dengue-endemic countries showed serologic evidence of previous dengue infection.
At the dawn of this century, world leaders signed a Millennium Declaration with the target of reaching eight specific health-related goals by 2015.
Recommendations for immunization of adults have been updated.
A systematic review and meta-analysis found that the healthcare-associated pneumonia concept was based on low-quality evidence confounded by publication bias and does not accurately identify antibiotic resistant pathogens.
The official countdown for ICD-10 implementation is well underway.
