As the population continues to age, improving the quality and efficiency of health care services for older adults has become increasingly important. However, the older adult population is diverse, often suffering from multiple ...
Jul 12, 2024
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(HealthDay)—Enactment of a quality improvement prevention bundle at a tertiary care children's hospital significantly reduced the rate of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), according to research published ...
Aug 11, 2014
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Trauma patients who show no symptoms for COVID, yet test positive for the virus, have significantly higher rates of cardiac events, stay in the hospital longer, and incur higher hospital charges than do similar trauma patients ...
Oct 17, 2022
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Minimally invasive islet transplantation for patients with type 1 diabetes achieves insulin independence and reverses the progression of atherosclerosis in the first few years after transplant, according to a University of ...
Jan 28, 2013
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Cardiac rehabilitation is a key part of recovery from a heart attack, helping to prevent another, perhaps more severe one.
Sep 21, 2023
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Clinical cardiac complications were "reassuringly" uncommon among more than 600 patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in 2020, according to research published today by the Medical Journal of Australia.
Sep 6, 2021
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Stroke survivors who completed a cardiac rehabilitation program focused on aerobic exercise, currently not prescribed to stroke survivors, significantly improved their ability to transition from sitting to standing, and how ...
Jan 27, 2021
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With a global increase in the demand for organ transplants, the organ shortage crisis has taken a turn for the worse, as the supply of available organs remains insufficient to meet this growing need. A way to improve this ...
Jun 20, 2024
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Researchers may have developed a way to potentially assist prognostication in the first 24 hours after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) when patients are still in a coma. Their findings are revealed today at Acute Cardiovascular ...
Oct 20, 2014
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(Medical Xpress) -- Every single town in Australia has been rated on its proximity to cardiac care, before and after a heart attack, in a new report published in Circulation and headed by Queensland University of Technology ...
May 30, 2012
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