Center for Healthcare Delivery Science News

Rising costs of hospitalizations and prescription drugs March 2020
Frequent Inpatient Consults Up Care, Cost but Not Outcomes February 2020
How well can computers connect symptoms to diseases? January 2020
Experts share tips on turning datasets into useful machine learning algorithms June 2019
When a Hospital Meets an Airline February 2019
What is a Hospitalist? November 2018
Editorial board endorsement: Vote ‘no’ on Question 1. The nurse staffing ratio is wrong for Mass October 2018
Study: Mass. ICU Nurse Staffing Regulations Did Not Improve Patient Mortality and Complications September 2018
Mass. Law On ICU Nurse Staffing Ratios Has Had Little Effect Since 2016, Study Finds September 2018
Beth Israel publishes study suggesting nurse-staffing ratios don't help patients September 2018
JAMA Network: Internal Medicine: Interview with Jennifer P. Stevens, MD, MS, author of Comparison of Hospital Resource Use and Outcomes Among Hospitalists, Primary Care Physicians, and Other Generalists, and C. Seth. Landefeld, MD, author of The Costs and Benefits of Hospital Care by Primary Physicians: Continuity Counts November 2017
Previous Patient-Doctor Relationship Influences Long-Term Outcomes in Hospitalized Adults November 2017
Health News from NPR: Counting The Heavy Cost Of Care In The Age Of Opioids October 2017
Study finds stark increase in opioid-related admissions, deaths in nation's ICUs August 2017
Researchers Identify Sharp Rise in Hospitalizations and Health Care Costs Associated with Opioid Abuse May 2016