Risk of death, hospital readmission prolonged after heart attack, heart failure
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 ...
Cardiology
May 16, 2013 |
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Wondering about your hospital's quality? Ask a nurse
(HealthDay)—The easiest way to assess a hospital's quality of care might be to just ask the nurses, new research suggests.
Health
Oct 11, 2012 |
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Hospital-acquired UTIs rarely reported in data used to implement penalties
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 ...
Health
Sep 05, 2012 |
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Study examines patient experience at safety-net hospitals
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 ...
Health
Jul 16, 2012 |
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Patients' online hospital reviews reflect data on hospital outcomes
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.
Health
Feb 13, 2012 |
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Robotic therapy may provide lasting gains for immobilized stroke survivors
Severely impaired stroke survivors could walk better when a robotic assist system was added to conventional rehabilitation, according to a study in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Cardiology
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Value of hospital environmental services linked to efficiency not expenses
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 ...
Health
Jul 18, 2011 |
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All hospital emergency rooms should be prepared for children
(HealthDay)—All hospital emergency departments (EDs), including community hospital EDs, should have the appropriate medications, equipment, policies, and staff to provide effective emergency care for children, ...
Health
Apr 05, 2013 |
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Staff satisfaction at hospitals may affect the quality of patient care
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.
Health
Feb 20, 2013 |
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Little progress in participation of early-career registered nurses in hospital quality improvement activities
Nurses are the largest group of health care providers in the U.S., and health care leaders and experts agree that engaging registered nurses (RNs) in quality improvement (QI) efforts is essential to improving our health care ...
Health
Jan 28, 2013 |
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Hospital rankings dramatically affected by calculation methods for readmissions and early deaths
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 (Canad ...
Health
Oct 09, 2012 |
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Survival of safety-net hospitals at risk
Many public safety-net hospitals are likely to face increasing financial and competitive pressures stemming in part from the recent Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act, according to researchers at Penn State ...
Health
Sep 20, 2012 |
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Reporting of hospital infection rates and burden of C. difficile
A new study published today in PLoS Medicine re-evaluates the role of public reporting of hospital-acquired infection data.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 17, 2012 |
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Study examines use of a natural language processing tool for electronic health records in assessing colonoscopy quality
A new study shows that natural language processing programs can "read" dictated reports and provide information to allow measurement of colonoscopy quality in an inexpensive, automated and efficient manner. The quality variation ...
Other
Jun 21, 2012 |
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Hospital readmission rates linked to availability of care, socioeconomics
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 ...
Cardiology
May 11, 2012 |
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