Medicare patients who were treated by osteopathic and allopathic hospitalists received similar quality and costs of care, according to the results of research published in Annals of Internal Medicine.There are two types of degree programs that educate physicians in the United States: allopathic and osteopathic medical schools, which produce MDs and DOs, respectively, Atsushi Miyawaki, MD, PhD, a
An analysis of over 300,000 Medicare admissions showed no clinically important differences regarding mortality, readmission, length of stay, and healthcare spending between the two groups.
Mayo Clinic study finds one-third of messages referred to a doctor by their first name. Women physicians were twice as likely to be "untitled" through patient communications deploying the use of a doctor's first name, and male patients were more likely to commit the error than female patients.