Showing posts with label quality of care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quality of care. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Patient Safety: A Success Story, (A great example of why nurse intimidation can be lethal) @patiyer #nurseup #nursefriendly

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Patient Safety: A Success Story, (A great example of why nurse intimidation can be lethal) #nurseup #nursefriendly:”Prevention of medical e...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Nyack Hospital's Code H Spells Safety and Satisfaction | New Jersey Nursing News

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Nyack Hospital, Nyack, N.Y., has launched a system where patients and their visitors can trigger levels of rapid response. Impetus for the ...
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

Errors still common in U.S. hospitals | Reuters

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About one in three people in the United States will encounter some kind of mistake during a hospital stay, U.S. researchers said Thursday. ...

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...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Battle Hymn of the California Nurse, by Marilou Morgan RN

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ShareThis Buzz up! 11 votes To Receive our inspirational stories a...

Electronic Health Records: Status, Needs and Lessons – 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data

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The use of electronic health records (EHRs) by medical practices and other organizations in the United States has increased measurably in t...
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...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

How to Find the Best Hospital Near You - US News and World Report

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Some Americans are fortunate enough to live down the street from a world-class hospital. For them, where to go for highly skilled care is c...
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...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

The Nursefriendly Daily, Current Nursing News Shared on Twitter

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Lawsuits Aren't Improving Nursing Home Care: Study   businessweek.com - Litigation rates similar for poor and good facilities...
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

Drug Shortages Distress Hospitals - WSJ.com

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A shortage of injectable generic drugs for cancer and other serious diseases is putting pressure on hospitals, which are sometimes having t...

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...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Admitting harm protects patients - Sunday, March 27, 2011 | 2 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun

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As Nevada legislators debate this week whether to require hospitals to publicly report when they harm patients , they could learn a lot fro...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

Palliative care can lead to higher quality of live and longer survival

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by John Schumann, MD Every once in awhile amidst the weekly deluge of medical articles comes a show-stopper that has the potential to cha...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Slowing health costs requires answering 3 simple questions

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by Donald H. Taylor, Jr., PhD If we ever slow health care cost inflation to a sustainable pace, it will be because we learn how to ask 3 ...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Danger of multiple emergency room visits to different hospitals

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If you are one of the more than 100 million Americans who visit emergency rooms (ER) at least once a year, you’re not alone. Americans, i...