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Happy hospitals make happy patients
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Imagine a hospital where morale is high, employee turnover is low and patient call buttons rarely go unanswered---and if they do, you can call the hospital's CEO.
Safety in numbers for community hospitals performing emergency angioplasty
Nov 13, 2008 |
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Heart experts at Johns Hopkins have evidence that life-saving coronary angioplasty at community hospitals is safer when physicians and hospital staff have more experience with the procedure.
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New study finds MRSA on the rise in hospital outpatients
Nov 24, 2009 |
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The community-associated strain of the deadly superbug MRSA -- an infection-causing bacteria resistant to most common antibiotics -- poses a far greater health threat than previously known and is making its way into hospitals, ...
Checking more lymph nodes linked to cancer patient survival
Jul 22, 2008 |
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Why do patients with gastric or pancreatic cancer live longer when they are treated at cancer centers or high-volume hospitals than patients treated at low-volume or community hospitals?
Hospitals cutting services, staff amid recession
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Ailing from the recession, many U.S. hospitals have had to begin making painful cuts to patient services and laying off staff, as previous cost-cutting hasn't been enough, an industry survey found.
Study suggests sick children should be tranferred to specialty hospitals sooner
May 01, 2008 |
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Critically ill children admitted to the pediatric intensive care units of regional medical centers from smaller hospitals are sicker than those admitted directly from those centers' own emergency rooms, a study by pediatric ...
Fewer than 1 in 5 patients receive treatment to prevent life-threatening blood clots
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Fewer than 1 in 5 patients received post-discharge therapy to prevent life-threatening blood clots — venous thrombosis — after hip- or knee-replacement surgery, report Rahme and colleagues in a retrospective cohort study. ...
Statewide study confirms 'paperless' hospitals are better for patients
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Results from a large-scale Johns Hopkins study of more than 40 hospitals and 160,000 patients show that when health information technologies replace paper forms and handwritten notes, both hospitals and patients benefit strongly.
US hospitals 'flunk' colon cancer
Sep 09, 2008 |
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School has barely begun, but many U.S. hospitals have already received their report card in colon cancer. They flunked. A new study from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and the American College of Surgeons ...
Educational initiatives improve quality of care delivery
May 15, 2009 |
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A study of targeted educational initiatives between the clinical staff at Fox Chase Cancer Center and the hospitals within their Partners program suggest that educational interventions by academic cancer centers can improve ...
Where you live matters when you're seriously ill
Oct 02, 2008 |
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America does a mediocre job caring for its sickest people. The nation, says a new report, gets a C.
Older drugs no match against drug-resistant infections
Mar 19, 2008 |
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As antibiotics lose their punch, a team of researchers at McMaster University discovered "old" drugs that doctors are turning to also have built-in problems in thwarting infectious diseases.
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