Cost-effectiveness for risk-stratified patients isn’t necessarily better than usual care for lower back pain in the military health system, according to a study in the July 15 issue of Spine.

Compared with conventional care, risk-stratified care did not improve outcome scores for patients from the Military Health System who had low back pain, according to published results.Researchers ...

Patients aged 18 to 95 years with abdominal pain and gallstones or sludge were randomly assigned either to the usual care group (n=537) or to the restrictive strategy group (n=530).

Usual Care vs. Amino-Terminal ProBNP-Guided Therapy in HFrEF August 23, 2017 The study was stopped for futility when 894 of the planned 1,100 patients had been enrolled with follow-up for a median ...

It involves assessment of five factors during the initial work-up of chest pain patients: history, ECG, age, ... Over 6-week periods, the incidence of MACE was 1.3% lower with HEART care than with ...

Timely coordinated diagnostic assessment following an abnormal screening mammogram reduces patient anxiety and may optimise breast cancer prognosis. Since 1998, the Ontario Breast Screening ...

Intervention patients (v usual care) reported greater improvement in QOL from baseline to week 24 (1.59 v −3.40; P = .010) but not week 12 (0.39 v −1.13; P = .339).Intervention patients also reported ...

A long-term, supervised exercise program for patients with axial spondyloarthritis and severe functional limitations improved functional disability and physical quality of life vs. usual care ...