A symposium focused on men's health was held Tuesday at the Flint Institute of Arts, aiming to tackle the concerning ...

Underuse measures, the authors write, covered all categories of clinical service, while overuse measures were restricted and addressed either diagnostic imaging or medication prescription.

Fewer than half of eligible patients with advanced ovarian cancer receive first-line maintenance treatments, highlighting ...

Overall, the underuse of appropriate medication was observed in 67% of elderly primary-care patients participating in a Belgian cohort study. Each additional medication not prescribed at baseline was ...

So rather than looking at overuse and underuse, perhaps we need to focus on appropriate care, or what the Lown Institute, a Boston-based nonprofit think tank, refers to as RightCare, which melds ...

Respondents who reported underuse were more than nine times likely to have difficulty purchasing diabetes supplies (OR = 9.4; 95% CI, 2.6-34.1).

Applying appropriate use criteria (AUC) to data from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR), Paul Chan and colleagues found, consistent with previous studies, that 12.2% of the more than ...

Study reveals underuse of a key drug in patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia by Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain ...

They administered a survey to 354 patients (52% women; 54% white) with type 1 (34.8%) or type 2 diabetes (65.2%) who were prescribed insulin within the past 6 months and visited the Yale Diabetes ...

Underuse of Radiation Therapy After Breast Conservation Surgery in Puerto Rico: A Puerto Rico Central Cancer Registry–Health Insurance Linkage Database Study Authors: William W. Chance, Karen J. Ortiz ...

A new study has found that resident physicians at teaching hospitals underuse interpreter services — often relying on hand gestures or a limited number of words in the patient’s native language.