News tagged with hospital medicine
Physician's empathy directly associated with positive clinical outcomes, confirms large study
Patients of doctors who are more empathic have better outcomes and fewer complications, concludes a large, empirical study by a team of Thomas Jefferson University and Italian researchers who evaluated relationships between ...
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Sep 10, 2012 |
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Hospital patients suffer in shift shuffle
Patient handovers have increased significantly as a result of the restrictions on the number of hours residents are allowed to work. Multiple shift changes, and resulting consecutive sign-outs, during patient handovers are ...
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Oct 20, 2011 |
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New study shows high cost of defensive medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers estimate that U.S. orthopaedic surgeons create approximately $2 billion per year in unnecessary health care costs associated with orthopaedic care due to the practice of defensive ...
Health
Feb 09, 2012 |
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New research shows C-section not always best for babies
The widely-held assumption that a cesarean delivery has no health risks for the baby is being challenged today by new research that found the procedure did not help some preterm babies who were small for gestational age, ...
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Feb 09, 2012 |
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EMPHASIS HF: Study shows epleronone to reduce atrial fibrillation
The aldosterone antagonist eplerenone (Inspra, Pfizer) significantly reduced the development of new onset atrial fibrillation and flutter (AFF) in patients with class 2 heart failure, concludes a sub-analysis of the EMPHASIS-HF ...
Cardiology
May 22, 2011 |
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Walking around is the simplest way to shorten hospital stay
A new study from the University of Haifa has found that walking around the ward during hospitalization significantly reduces the length of the older patient's stay. "Given the over-occupancy of many hospitals, this finding ...
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Aug 08, 2011 |
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Food served in children's hospitals rated largely unhealthy
Given the obesity epidemic among the nation's young, one would hope that children's hospitals would serve as a role model for healthy eating. But hospitals in California fall short, with only 7 percent of entrees classified ...
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Dec 01, 2011 |
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Study reveals safety of CT scans for rapid rule out of heart attacks in ER chest pain patients
A highly detailed CT scan of the heart can safely and quickly rule out the possibility of a heart attack among many patients who come to hospital emergency rooms with chest pain, according to the results of a study that will ...
Cardiology
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Study: Transport of trauma patients by helicopter costly but effective
Seriously injured trauma patients transported to hospitals by helicopter are 16 percent more likely to survive than similarly injured patients brought in by ground ambulance, new Johns Hopkins research shows.
Health
Apr 17, 2012 |
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Probiotics show potential to minimize C. difficile
(Medical Xpress)—New cases of C. difficile-associated diarrhea among hospitalized patients taking antibiotics can be reduced by two-thirds with the use of probiotics, according to new research published Monday in the Annals of ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 13, 2012 |
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People with HIV hospitalized less often since combination antiretroviral drug therapy introduced
People with HIV are being hospitalized in Ontario significantly less often than they were 15 years ago when combination antiretroviral drug therapy (cART) was introduced, new research has found.
HIV & AIDS
Dec 17, 2012 |
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U.S. efforts to boost number of primary care doctors have failed
(HealthDay)—Amid signs of a growing shortage of primary care physicians in the United States, a new study shows that the majority of newly minted doctors continues to gravitate toward training positions ...
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Jan 10, 2013 |
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Increasing severity of erectile dysfunction is a marker for increasing risk of cardiovascular disease and death
A large study published in PLOS Medicine on January 29, 2013, shows that the risk of future cardiovascular disease and death increased with severity of erectile dysfunction in men both with and without a history of cardio ...
Cardiology
Jan 29, 2013 |
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Impact of injuries in the UK more than 2 and a half times higher than estimated
Injuries in the UK are having a much greater impact on peoples' lives than previously estimated, a study has found.
Health
Dec 06, 2011 |
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No walk in the park: Factors that predict walking difficulty in elderly
Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that the likelihood of becoming disabled with age increases with the following factors: having a chronic condition or cognitive impairment; low physical activity; slower gross ...
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Jan 16, 2012 |
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