A national network of hospitals committed to caring for the vulnerable has prevented 1,184 harmful events and saved nearly $12 million through a federal initiative to reduce hospital-acquired conditions and preventable readmissions. Members of the Essential Hospitals Engagement Network (EHEN)...
For patients undergoing surgery on the cervical (upper) spine, overall rates of complications and death are higher at teaching hospitals than at non-teaching hospitals, reports a study in the journal Spine. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer...
Patients in hospital who are on antibiotics may benefit from taking probiotics, according to researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital.
Dr. Reena Pattani led a literature review that looked at the effectiveness of probiotics, live bacteria that can take up residence in digestive tracts, in...
I really can't say I'm surprised, but a new study out from TIME magazine shows just how much Americans are overpaying for hospital care. More »
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Hospital beds tend to get used simply because they're available - not necessarily because they're needed, according to a first-of-its-kind study that supports continued regulation of new hospitals. Michigan State University researchers examined all 1.1 million admissions at Michigan's 169...
Telestroke networks that enable the remote and rapid diagnosis and treatment of stroke can improve the bottom line of patients and hospitals, researchers report. A central hub hospital delivering rapid stroke diagnosis and treatment partnering with typically smaller spoke hospitals in need of...
Medical technology is relying more and more heavily on computational power to streamline the healthcare process. But there's a problem: computerized medical technology is increasingly vulnerable to malware infections, and nobody's doing anything about it. More »
An individual hospital's infection control efforts have a ripple effect on the prevalence of a deadly and highly infectious bacterium in hospitals throughout its surrounding region, a multi-center research group led by the University of Pittsburgh demonstrated in a computer simulation-based...
A Yale study of the care quality received at safety-net hospitals - which provide care for the majority of uninsured and other vulnerable populations - found that quality at these facilities is similar to non-safety-net hospitals. This is despite the unique financial challenges at safety-net...
Patients who undergo radical surgery for prostate cancer may expect better results, on average, if they're treated in accredited teaching hospitals with residency programs, and better still if the hospitals also have medical fellowships, according to a new study by Henry Ford Hospital. The...
Hospitals in large cities act as breeding grounds for the superbug MRSA prior to it spreading to smaller hospitals, a study suggests. Researchers found evidence that shows for the first time how the superbug spreads between different hospitals throughout the country. The University of Edinburgh...
Hospitals that perform expensive, invasive cardiovascular procedures on a disproportionate number of patients are more costly for all heart failure patients, including those treated with noninvasive methods, according to a new Yale study. Most heart failure patients are cared for without the use...
Heart attack patients in North Carolina who were rushed directly to hospitals equipped to do percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) received treatment significantly faster than patients first taken to hospitals unequipped to perform PCI and then later transferred for treatment, according to...
Higher-spending hospitals do have better outcomes for their emergency patients, including fewer deaths, according to a Vanderbilt study released as a working paper through the National Bureau of Economic Research. Vanderbilt's John Graves, Ph.D., assistant professor of Preventive Medicine, along...
people who want to go in the medical field usually volunteer at hospitals to get more of a feel of how it is. i want to be a dietitian, are there volunteer opportunities for that?
The percentage of US hospitals using health information technology such as Electronic Health Records has more than doubled in the last two years, according to an announcement by the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as she visited a Health Science Institute in Kansas...
The new limits on hours that physicians-in-training can work will prove costly for U.S teaching hospitals, which will need to spend up to $1.3 billion a year, and possibly more, to effect the changes, a new UCLA study suggests. On July 1, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education...
Riots in London got so bad that some patients were having their scheduled operations canceled as managers ordered a lockdown to protect their premises. The National Health Service (NHS) says contingency plans have been put into practice so that casualties resulting from the civil unrest can be...
According to a recent study published on bmj.com, in the last 21 years hospitals across England have seen a tremendous increase in the number of patients being detained for mental illness while concurrently there has been a reduction in the number of beds for patients with this disorder. The...
A report into the care received by nearly 8,000 patients with dementia in 206 hospitals in England and Wales has revealed that few hospitals provide mandatory training for their staff in awareness of dementia, that many patients with dementia are not having assessments of their mental health or...