A better understanding of risks and causes of harm for out of hours palliative care is urgently needed to ensure patient safety, finds a study carried out by researchers at Cardiff University.
Jan 31, 2019
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Scribes help to increase doctors' productivity and shorten patients' stay at the emergency department, with no significant risk to patient safety, suggest the results of a randomised trial published in The BMJ today.
Jan 30, 2019
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The government's Long Term Plan for the NHS, published earlier this month, sets out its vision for a quality health service able to cope with an ageing and expanding population. But, as many commentators point out, without ...
Jan 30, 2019
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Children who experience physical, sexual, and emotional abuse or neglect are at least two to three times more likely to attempt suicide in later life, according to the largest research review carried out of the topic.
Jan 9, 2019
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Technology that retailers use to make a shopping experience more efficient could also benefit your next eye appointment.
Jan 9, 2019
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Naloxone has saved thousands of lives. But can patients be safely discharged from the Emergency Department (ED) just an hour after they receive the medication that curtails drug overdoses?
Dec 28, 2018
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New research from Boston Children's Hospital finds that harmful medical errors decreased by 38 percent following intervention to improve communication between healthcare providers and patients and families. The study is led ...
Dec 6, 2018
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Admission to a hospital ward with below average numbers of fully trained (registered) nurses to care for patients is linked to a 3 percent rise in the risk of death for each day the shortfall persists, suggests UK research ...
Dec 4, 2018
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Researchers are using artificial intelligence to reduce the dose of a contrast agent that may be left behind in the body after MRI exams, according to a study being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological ...
Nov 26, 2018
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Ask any patient who has ever had one: A bedsore hurts a lot. And if it doesn't heal, that sore can last for years, eating away at the flesh and leading to infections, sepsis or even death.
Nov 5, 2018
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