The rate of different-day elective upper and lower endoscopic procedures was 3.5 times higher in physician’s offices than in hospital outpatient departments, according to results from a recent study ...

Although bundling of endoscopic procedures on the same day is convenient for patients, is efficient for providers and offers cost savings, the procedures are often separated on different days because ...

If your car needs work on its front and rear axles, it's obviously more convenient, efficient and cost effective to have both repairs done at the same time. Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine ...

These procedures range from screening colonoscopies to upper GI endoscopies. Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of these procedures may lead to better patient outcomes and can help to control ...

Compared with 0.63% of non-users, 0.83% patients on a GLP-1 receptor agonist experienced aspiration pneumonia within a month of the procedure, Kevin Sheng-Kai Ma, DDS, of Brigham and Women's Hospital ...

New research from Cedars-Sinai suggests people who are scheduled for certain medical procedures should stop taking popular weight loss drugs in the days or weeks prior to avoid complications.