The American Physical Society awarded Dr. Prakash the 2022 Hans A. Bethe Prize, the most prestigious prize in the field of nuclear astrophysics, for his research about neutron stars and black holes.
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A new service piloted at Penn Medicine allowed a proportion of patients to avoid hospitalization by providing them with greater support after visiting the emergency department. The vast majority of the patients enrolled in the service - nearly 9 out of 10 - did not need to return to the hospital for care in the month that followed their initial visit. The study was published in
Healthcare. The culture is shifting where we realize that hospitalization is not always the best option for patients - particularly patients with chronic illness, said one of the study s lead authors, Austin Kilaru, MD, an emergency physician at Penn Medicine. We need to find better ways of helping patients not just get healthy in a hospital, but stay healthy at home - whenever they are ready to be there.
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Machine learning can be used to comb through online reviews of substance use treatment facilities to home in on qualities that are important to patients but remain hard to capture via formal means, such as surveys, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania show. The researchers found that professionalism and staff dedication to patients were two of the top qualities that could be attributed to either a negative or positive review of the facility. Findings from this study were published today in the
Journal of General Internal Medicine. Searching for - and connecting with - therapy can be very difficult and confusing. Many individuals start their search online, where they are likely to see an online review accompanying other information about a treatment facility, said the study s lead author, Anish Agarwal, MD, a clinical innovation manager in the Penn Medicine Center for Digital Health and an assistant professor of Emergency M