To understand both the simplicity of disparities in health care and the complexity of eliminating them, consider this:In the late 1970s and early '80s, black and white death rates for ...
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Simple yet revolutionary changes in handling drugs when high-risk patients are discharged are at the core of a program that has cut its readmissions within 30 days of discharge by ...
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March 18, 2013 5:38 am by Sapatkin, Don | 0 Comments
As we've known for some time, life expectancy in the United States is lower than in nearly every other developed country. What we haven't known is why -- and the ...
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February 21, 2013 5:20 am by Sapatkin, Don | 0 Comments
Penn Medicine's decision to hire only nonsmokers starting July 1 is part of a slow-moving trend that goes back decades and that is still controversial even among public health workers, ...
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December 11, 2012 4:37 am by Sapatkin, Don | 0 Comments
With pertussis at its highest level nationally in a half-century, the Philadelphia region has been weathering a spike that in some places is more than triple the previous record set ...
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