How Government Attempts To Reduce Health Spending Can Paradoxically Raise Health Costs

Flawed reimbursements for lumbar punctures illustrate unintended consequences of central planning of prices for medical ...
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Lumbar Puncture Found Safe in Those on Antiplatelet Therapy

Investigators conducted a single-centre, retrospective cohort study of 783 adult patients in Austria who underwent diagnostic LP, most on an elective basis. The main outcome was any procedural ...
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Delay of the Diagnostic Lumbar Puncture and Intrathecal Chemotherapy in Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Who Undergo Routine Corticosteroid Testing: Tokyo Children ...

Decreasing Late Mortality Among Five-Year Survivors of Cancer in Childhood and Adolescence: A Population-Based Study in the Nordic Countries PURPOSE: To determine the effects of eliminating initial ...

Outrage as hospital worker still doing same procedure he 'botched' leaving woman traumatised

One expert branded the woman's experience 'utterly horrifying' as pressure builds over the hospital's use of physician ...