Pediatric Fracture-Related Pain: The Crowding Effect
According to published studies, pain is the most common reason for seeking care in the ED,...
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Hospital Medicine
Wide Disparity in Hospital Charges for Appendicitis. Why?
If you wonder why hospitals are under fire for outrageous and often baffling accounting practices,...
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Discharging Patients After Elective PCI
Among Medicare recipients, PCI is one of the most commonly performed cardiac procedures in the...
Read MoreA Quality Indicator Toolkit for Hospitals
The AHRQ has release a toolkit to guide hospitals in the use of the agency’s Inpatient Quality Indicators and Patient Safety Indicators for improving care. The toolkit, available for free at www.ahrq.gov, includes a “roadmap”...
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Procalcitonin & Antibiotic Decisions
The advent of antibiotic therapy has led to dramatic reductions in mortality and morbidity due to...
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Assessing Medical Decision-Making Capacity
Research has shown that many clinicians lack formal training in evaluating medical decision-making...
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Society of Critical Care Medicine’s 2012 Annual Congress
New research was presented at the 2012 Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Critical Care Congress...
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Post-Acute Care for Medicare Beneficiaries
The quality of care coordination is important to the United States healthcare system as hospital...
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Sepsis Care Improved in the ED
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that requires immediate medical attention. The condition...
Read MoreA New Look at Leaving Without Being Seen in EDs
A decrease in access to EDs throughout the United States has strained the healthcare system significantly. When patients leave the ED without being seen, the emergency care delivery system has failed to provide care to...
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Internists Cite Wasteful Medical Screenings
The overuse of some screening and diagnostic tests that fail to provide high-value, cost-conscious...
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U.S. Docs Lag Behind Foreign Colleagues in Embracing Healthcare IT
U.S. physicians are not nearly as sold on the benefits of healthcare IT as are their international...
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Blood Conservation in Surgery
Surgical procedures account for the transfusion of almost 15 million units of packed red blood...
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Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals for 2012
Thomson Reuters has released its 13th annual report identifying the nation’s best providers of...
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Hospital Volume & Mortality: Trends in High-Risk Surgery
A growing number of studies have reported inverse relationships between hospital volume and...
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Top 10 States Having Hospitals With Palliative Care
On average, our nation gets a “B” for hospital support care, according to a new report...
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Do Hospital Formula Samples Undermine Breast-Feeding?
Along with their little bundle of joy and a stack of papers and pamphlets, some new parents are...
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MRSA Contaminates Hospital Privacy Curtains
Though you dutifully wash your hands, your hand-hygiene efforts may be in vain if you touch...
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Welcome Guidelines for Managing MRSA in Adults & Children
MRSA has been well documented as a significant cause of both healthcare–associated and...
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Bacteria Contaminates 60% of Hospital Uniforms
More than 60% of uniforms worn by hospital nurses and doctors tested positive for potentially...
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