http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Heart attack or heart failure patients may have a high risk of death or re-admission for a month or longer after leaving the hospital, researchers said at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Scientific Sessions 2013. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-death-hospital-readmission-prolonged-heart.html Cardiology Thu, 16 May 2013 10:25:36 EST news287918720 The satisfaction levels among a hospital's staff are closely linked to the quality of healthcare it provides, say a team of doctors from Imperial College London. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-staff-satisfaction-hospitals-affect-quality.html Health Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:20:01 EST news280605233 (HealthDay)—The easiest way to assess a hospital's quality of care might be to just ask the nurses, new research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-hospital-quality-nurse.html Health Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:40:01 EST news269194404 Hospital readmission rates and early death rates are used to rank hospital performance but there can be significant variation in their values, depending on how they are calculated, according to a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-hospital-affected-methods-readmissions-early.html Health Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:00:05 EST news269002524 Aiming to cut expenses and improve care, a 2008 Medicare policy stopped paying hospitals extra to treat some preventable, hospital-acquired conditions – including urinary tract infections (UTIs) in patients after bladder catheters are placed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-hospital-acquired-utis-rarely-penalties.html Health Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:30:03 EST news266077795 A new study published today in PLoS Medicine re-evaluates the role of public reporting of hospital-acquired infection data. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-hospital-infection-burden-difficile.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:00:06 EST news261757682 A study suggests that safety-net hospitals (SNHs), which typically care for poor patients, performed more poorly than other hospitals on nearly every measure of patient experience and that could have financial consequences as hospital payments are connected to performance, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-patient-safety-net-hospitals.html Health Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:00:16 EST news261673073 Differences in regional hospital readmission rates for heart failure are more closely tied to the availability of care and socioeconomics than to hospital performance or patients' degree of illness, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care & Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-hospital-readmission-linked-availability-socioeconomics.html Cardiology Fri, 11 May 2012 09:27:31 EST news255947246 Patients' ratings of hospitals tally with objective measures of the hospital's performance, according to an independent study published today in Archives of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-patients-online-hospital-outcomes.html Health Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:00:13 EST news248370679 The amount of money that hospitals spend on environmental services, such as cleaning and maintenance service is not as important in influencing patient satisfaction scores as the way the money is spent, according to Penn State researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-hospital-environmental-linked-efficiency-expenses.html Health Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:35:36 EST news230207724 Top-performing hospitals are typically ones headed by a medical doctor rather than a manager. That is the finding from a new study of what makes a good hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-hospitals-physicians.html Health Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:21:45 EST news229177216