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A study conducted by researchers at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute and the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science suggests patients’ fear of being labeled “difficult,” as well as other factors, could hurt efforts to improve shared…

A spokesman from Lincoln Hospital in Bronx, N.Y., said the hospital is investigating a surgical fire that may have burned a patient, according to a New York Post report. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on Lincoln Hospital.

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital found a training program helped increase resident physicians’ empathy with patients and improve patients’ perceptions of their providers. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on patient satisfaction.

Summa Health System in Akron, Ohio will study a procalcitonin test designed to rapidly detect bacterial infections in pneumonia patients, according to a Plain Dealer report. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on Summa Health System.

Christine Corbin, MD, a board-certified obstetrics and gynecology surgeon, is a physician-owner and medical director of the Surgery Center at Tanasbourne in Hillsboro, Ore., a physician-owned facility that is also partly owned by Blue Chip Surgical Partners and Providence Health…

A company spun off from the biologics division of Smith & Nephew has launched, according to a news release.

An incubator for biomedical-device startup companies is scheduled to open in Peoria, Ariz., in early June, according to an Arizona Republic report.

Some hospital operating rooms are borrowing a practice from sports teams to boost efficiency: huddles. On the playing field, team members with different roles huddle to discuss strategies to win the game. In an OR, clinicians and staff can huddle…

Implantable Provider Group and Aetna have announced the expansion of their Implantable Device Benefit Management program into North and South Carolina.

In a recent op-ed in the New York Post, Daniel Goldberg, director of business development for New Jersey Spine and Rehabilitation in Pompton Lakes, N.J., discussed the safety of outpatient settings for spine surgery.