The AI algorithms increasingly used to treat and diagnose patients can have biases and blind spots that could impede healthcare for Black and Latinx patients, according to research co-authored by a Rutgers-Newark data scientist.
Since Leapfrog reported Hospital Safety Grades in fall 2022, when HAI rates were at their highest peak since 2016, average HAI scores have declined dramatically: Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) decreased by 38% . Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) decreased by 36% , and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) decreased by 34% .
Why is concierge medicine growing? In large part, because dealing with healthcare is tough on both patients and providers, and lots of people want an alternative. "The United States has not valued or financed primary care appropriately for decades," says Erin Sullivan, an associate professor of healthcare administration at Suffolk's Sawyer Business School. "The undervaluing of primary care — the under-financing of primary care — has led to a burned-out workforce and primary care staff shortages."
In a little over two decades, almost 260 million people in the United States are predicted to have overweight or obesity, according to a new study. The study, published in the medical journal the Lancet, is one of the first to project what the nation's obesity epidemic will look like as far out as 2050. Specifically, it suggests that 43.1 million children and adolescents and 213 million adults will have overweight and/or obesity. In 2021, 36.5 million children and adolescents and 172 million adults had overweight and obesity.
Nearly 4 in 10 seniors have gotten a COVID-19 vaccine so far this year, new survey data published by the CDC suggests, marking a steep increase in vaccination rates compared with the same time last year. The data from the CDC's National Immunization Survey estimates that 37.6% of Americans ages 65 and older had gotten a shot of this season's updated COVID-19 vaccine by Nov. 2, compared with 22.6% of older adults by the same week in 2023. Younger adults are also outpacing last year's rollout of COVID-19 shots, though not by the same large margin. By contrast, uptake of influenza vaccines this fall among seniors – 55.3% by Nov. 2 – is almost the same as at this time last year.