In clinical trials with multiple visits, dropouts often occur and the population of patients who dropped out may be different from the population of patients who completed the study. To assess ...

In the early stages of the pandemic, it was thought that antibodies produced post-infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) provide a certain degree of protection ...

Regulators and payers use hospital readmissions as an indicator of quality of care, but the omission of observation stays provides an incomplete picture, according to a paper in this week’s New ...

Medicare patients alone admitted to observation status—now roughly 1.8 million annually. Yet even for clinicians, misunderstandings about observation status abound—as demonstrated by the complexity of ...