Each year the U.S. government spends billions of dollars on graduate medical education (GME) at the nation’s hospitals to support postgraduate physician training. But a historically unequal distribution of those funds has prompted policymakers to rethink...
When Yale researchers reported in December that a seven-day quarantine, coupled with carefully timed testing, could be as effective as a 14-day quarantine in preventing the spread of COVID-19, it attracted widespread media coverage. In fact, the research...
Electronic alert systems created to provide an early warning of acute kidney injury (AKI) in hospitalized patients have no effect on a patient’s risk of death and may even lead to worse patient outcomes, according to a new study by Yale researchers. ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has made existing health inequities more apparent than ever. In Louisiana, for instance, Black people account for nearly 77% of hospitalizations and 70% of deaths while representing just 31% of the state’s health system. And...