When you're thinking about opening a business in a specific industry, the competitive landscape is always one of the first factors you must consider. For example, the fast-food business is one that ...

Marketing has become more fragmented as target markets and media used to reach them have become more fragmented. Fragmentation is generally counter to the objectives of segmented marketing. Marketers ...

Nearly 60% of patients discharged after undergoing TAVR will be readmitted to a different hospital in the first 90 days, according to data from the STS/ACC TVT Registry. At 1 year, this type of ...

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Among Medicare beneficiaries, the relationship between fragmented ambulatory care and subsequent emergency department visits and hospital admissions varies with the number of chronic conditions. Check ...

Although reduced physical activity during the day is widely seen as a harbinger of mortality in older people, fragmentation of physical activity -- spreading daily activity across more episodes of ...

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