Hospital mergers and acquisitions of physician practices: Research illuminates what’s at stake for consumers
Hospital consolidations tend to raise prices without necessarily improving quality of care, according to a wide body of research.
Hospital consolidations tend to raise prices without necessarily improving quality of care, according to a wide body of research.
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We highlight five studies that explore how gun injuries lead to billions of dollars in hospital costs and lost work time every year.
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Although drugmakers have begun testing COVID-19 vaccines in children, many questions and concerns remain. These research studies provide journalists with background and sources to report on an ongoing story.
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“Economic effects of COVID-19 have been enormous on LGBTQ people, so it’s not just a viral reality,” says Dr. Perry Halkitis, dean of Rutgers’ School of Public Health, whose research focuses on LGBTQ populations. “It’s a social reality. It’s an economic reality. It’s a psychological reality.”
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Research suggests school closings amid the coronavirus pandemic have reduced the reporting of child abuse to authorities.
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Disparity studies can expose discrimination in government contracting. But do they lead to lasting change?
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Academic studies that explore minimum wage changes tend to look at how those changes affect employment levels. There are hundreds of studies on this.
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Below, we provide a sampling of academic research that looks at how multicultural education has changed in recent decades and inconsistencies in the way today’s teachers teach it.
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What most people think of as the Confederate flag is actually the battle flag of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia — it was never an official flag of the Confederacy.
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“The stock market is not the economy” has been the phrase of the COVID-19 recession among business journalists and economists. Here’s the research on the disconnect between stocks and Americans’ personal economies.
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