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Study shows how to lower costs, waiting times for colonoscopies
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, leading to over 50,000 fatalities every year. But it can be prevented with early screening using a procedure called a colonoscopy. Now researchers ...
75 percent would consider letting an unsupervised trainee perform surgery if it could be done quicker
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Three-quarters of surgical patients would consider allowing a competent unsupervised trainee junior doctor perform their entire operation if it meant they could have it done more quickly, according to a survey published in ...
Waiting times too long for bariatric surgery
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Obesity is now acknowledged as a chronic disease with a number of related complications, and its prevalence has reached alarming epidemic proportions. While bariatric surgery is effective at treating the disease, access to ...
Wait time guarantees not likely to reduce waits for joint replacement surgery
Oct 31, 2008 |
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Significant increases in surgical capacity or diverting patients to other jurisdictions are the best ways to deal with excessive wait times for hip and knee replacement surgery – a leading symbol of underfunding in Canada's ...
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Market based reforms have not harmed equity in the NHS, say researchers
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Recent NHS reforms, such as the introduction of patient choice and provider competition, have not had a deleterious impact on equity with respect to waiting times for elective surgery in England, concludes a study published ...
When shorter waits increase stress
Jan 08, 2008 |
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People hate to wait, says common customer service insight. Marketers will hype their earnest attempts to shorten waiting times or at least promise to provide customers with information or distractions to make the waiting ...
Nearly half of older patients projected to die while waiting for kidney transplant
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Forty-six percent of patients over age 60 currently on the waiting list for a kidney transplant will die before they receive an organ from a deceased donor, reports an upcoming study in the Clinical Journal of the American So ...
Crowded emergency departments pose greater risks for patients with heart attacks
Jun 04, 2009 |
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June 04, 2009 - Patients with heart attacks and other forms of chest pain are three to five times more likely to experience serious complications after hospital admission when they are treated in a crowded emergency department ...
Container planning inspired by ants
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- According to PhD student Albert Douma, of the University of Twente, Netherlands, it is possible to optimize the handling of inland container barges in the port of Rotterdam without management from the top. ...
To queue or not to queue?
Sep 22, 2008 |
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If there's one thing that separates humankind from the animals, it's that human beings wait in lines. To make a deposit at the bank, to pay for groceries, even to vote -- we've all learned to queue, one behind the other. ...
Prostate treatment not always needed
Jul 06, 2006 |
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A Canadian urologist says younger men diagnosed with early prostate cancer may be able to live long lives without treatment.
Making time fly: ISU professor studies how to moderate waiting time with customers
Jan 25, 2008 |
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We've all been there. You decide to go out for dinner and after being seated, you can't get service from the wait staff. Or you're at the airport waiting on flight delays and stuck in the customer service line, desperately ...
Kidneys from deceased donors with acute renal failure expand donor pool
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Kidneys recovered from deceased donors with acute renal failure (ARF) - once deemed unusable for transplant - appear to work just as well as kidneys transplanted from deceased donors who do not develop kidney problems prior ...
Patients will face delays in getting diagnostic scans due to severe shortage of imaging agents
Sep 06, 2008 |
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A global shortage of medical isotopes* used in over 80% of routine diagnostic nuclear imaging procedures such as heart imaging, bone scans and some cancer detection procedures, will cause delays and cancellations to diagnostic ...
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