Hospitals are facing a steady rise in payment disputes over their assignment of a Diagnosis Related Group (DRG). These disputes fall into two ...

Individuals with obesity may experience a lower incidence of acute complications following TBI, supporting the "obesity paradox." ...

Our current approach to mental health labelling and diagnosis has brought benefits. But as a practising doctor, I am concerned that it may be doing more harm than good ...

Background: Previous reports have suggested that the incidence of psychotic disorders has either been stable or decreasing ...

CDC officially rolled out ICD-10 code T75.830 specifically for Gulf War Illness. For 30 years, doctors said there was “no ...

1 Australian Centre for Research into Sports Injury and its Prevention (ACRISP), Monash Injury Research Institute (MIRI), Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2 School of Public Health, ...

In a retrospective cohort study examining patterns of peripheral artery disease (PAD) diagnosis in United States primary care s ...

A study published in Nature looks at genetic determinants of persistent Epstein-Barr virus DNA and associations with chronic conditions. Prof Lawrence Young, Virologist and Emeritus Professor of ...

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For many in the U.S., the “uncomfortable realization” is that having health insurance doesn’t always guarantee coverage for ...

Objectives To describe the incidence, presentation and long-term health outcomes of suicidal thoughts and behaviours (STBs) in children aged 12 years or under. Methods This population-based study ...

Introduction Duplicate medical records occur when a single patient is assigned multiple medical record numbers within an ...