Archive: 01/10/2018
Every day spent in the hospital, readmission likelihood increases by 2.9 percent in rural cities
Hospital readmissions, cost hospitals about $26 billion annually. Systems like the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) within the Affordable Care Act penalize hospitals with higher readmission rates for targeted ...
Oct 1, 2018
Conflict management improves ICU team knowledge, mindfulness, and awareness
The Intensive Care Unit is a stressful place, and conflicts invariably arise. To better understand the relationships between physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and advanced practitioners, researchers created a conflict ...
Oct 1, 2018
Facebook 'viable method' for implementing critical care ultrasound curriculum
Critical care ultrasound (CCUS) is an important skill for all critical care physicians to understand. However, currently there is no standard approach to how to teach CCUS. Researchers aimed to investigate the feasibility ...
Oct 1, 2018