Tag: Hospitals
Handoff Tool Alone Insufficient to Handle Nighttime Clinical Issues
Tool used as information source by residents in 27.7 percent of nighttime clinical encounters
Patients Say Pain Control Is Key to Quality of Care in Hospitals
Patient-provider shared decision-making may improve pain outcomes
Hospitalist Continuity Doesn’t Appear to Greatly Affect AEs
Hospitalist physician continuity by itself does not appear to affect the incidence of adverse events
Patients With Multiple Conditions Need Early Outpatient Follow-Up
Benefits those discharged with multiple chronic conditions and greater risk of readmission
Hospitalizations After Sepsis Resolution Often Preventable
Readmissions often for diseases, conditions that can be treated after first discharge
Educational Intervention Can Cut Inappropriate PPI Prescriptions
Increase in proportion of PPIs discontinued at hospital discharge after intervention implementation
Article Details Decontamination Process After Ebola Care
Nebraska Biocontainment Unit process includes cleaning of recovered patients, disposal of remains
National Hospital Rating Systems Rarely in Agreement
None of the hospitals rated as high performer on all four national rating systems
February 2015 Briefing – Nursing
Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Nursing for February 2015. This roundup includes the latest...
February 2015 Briefing – Critical Care
Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Critical Care for February 2015. This roundup includes the...
