Showing posts with label Quality of Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quality of Life. Show all posts
Friday, May 27, 2011

More primary care tied to lower death rates | Reuters

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Seniors living in areas with more primary care have slightly lower death rates and are less likely to end up in the hospital with a prevent...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Nursing Home Rehabilitation Stay Proves Terminal. Was Quality of Care Given An Issue?

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Medicare Hospital Compare Quality of Care (Thanks @TheresaBrown)

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Medicare.gov > Hospital Compare Home Hospital Compare ...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Patients with do-not-resuscitate orders fare worse | Reuters

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A new study could help people with a do-not-resuscitate order make better decisions about what surgeries they are willing to undergo. A...

Not Running a Hospital: Painfully slow

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You can already imagine the responses. "That's just in North Carolina." "Our patients are sicker." "There a...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

Racial Disparities Remain for Health Care for Vets - MSN Health - High Blood Pressure

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Gaps in care for black and white U.S. veterans have been reduced over the past decade as the VA Health Care System improved access to scree...
Monday, April 4, 2011

The five hospital factors that affect heart attack survival, Science Daily

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Until now, little has been known about the factors that may influence this variation in death rates. The Yale team reviewed 11 hospitals th...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

More Physicians Say No to Endless Workdays - NYTimes.com

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Even as a girl, Dr. Kate Dewar seemed destined to inherit the small-town medical practice of her grandfather and father. At 4, she could ex...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Why Not The Best (Hospital Benchmark Data)

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Comparative Health Care Performance Data   See how well U.S. hospitals perform on measures of evidence-ba...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Quality of Death and Dying in Patients who Request Physician-Assisted Death - Journal of Palliative Medicine

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Background: Physician-assisted death (PAD) was legalized in 1997 by Oregon's Death with Dignity Act (ODDA). Through 2009, 460 Oregonia...