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Some physicians believe that behind the COVID-19 pandemic is a silent sub-epidemic of people who need care but are too scared to visit emergency rooms, according to The Washington Post.

In healthcare's current fee-for-service landscape, it might be difficult to imagine a world without prior authorizations. But as more hospitals and payers shift to value-based care contracting and embrace analytical data-sharing, the burdens and inefficiencies associated with the prior authorization…

Some severely ill COVID-19 patients are developing blood clots in their lungs, physicians have found, but they do not have a treatment for it, according to STAT News.

Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children's Research Hospital partnered with the International Society of Paediatric Oncology to launch a global COVID-19 data registry and resource center for pediatric cancer.

AstraZeneca will start a clinical trial to see if its cancer drug Calquence can suppress the excessive immune response COVID-19 triggers in some patients, the drugmaker said April 14.

March/April 2020 Issue of Becker’s Clinical Leadership & Infection Control ON THE COVER 2 patient experience strategies separating front-runners from the pack As a whole, the healthcare industry is making gains in patient experience. But that doesn’t mean health systems…

November/December Clinical Leadership & Infection Control Issue ON THE COVER Ballad Health implements safety changes after fatal patient drop A man who died in 2018 after being dropped in the operating room has led to immediate and long-term improvements at…

January/February 2020 Issue of Becker’s Clinical Leadership & Infection Control ON THE COVER 7 leaders on the patient safety issue they’d fix overnight Throughout 2019, Becker’s asked numerous clinical leaders the following question: “If you could fix one patient safety issue overnight,…

U.S. cancer patients experience differences in survival rates in accordance with their race or ethnic group, a study published in JAMA Network Open shows.