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Fertility of Boys Resulting from Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection
The data from a recent study suggest that at least some men whose fathers had male-factor infertility and were born as a result of ICSI also may suffer from male-factor infertility.
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Ovarian Cancer Screening: Mortality Results
This paper is a 15-year median follow-up of extended mortality of the ovarian cancer screening portion of the Prostate, Lung, Colon, Ovary trial.
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Zika, Revisited
A new study from Brazil shows a very high rate of fetal central nervous system abnormalities with both first-trimester and second-trimester exposure to the Zika virus, compared with data from the United States and other areas in the world where the rate of fetal abnormalities has been lower.
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$1.3 Million from Big Data QI
A Maryland hospital has gone from losing $1.2 million in quality-based reimbursement in one year to gaining $1.3 million the next year, after implementing a number of quality improvement initiatives using big data.
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AHRQ Offers Safety Toolkit on Ventilated Patients
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is offering a new toolkit to improve safety for mechanically ventilated patients in ICUs.
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CMS Alternative Payment Models Gaining Ground
More than 359,000 clinicians are confirmed to participate in four of CMS’s Alternative Payment Models in 2017, CMS announced recently.
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Compliance Alert: First Timely Notification Ding for HIPAA
Compliance leaders take note: The Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights is paying more attention to timely notification of HIPAA breaches. The Office for Civil Rights' first-ever settlement with a healthcare provider for failing to notify in a timely manner signals a change in expectations.
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High Volume Leads to Better Hip and Knee Outcomes
Larger hospitals and those performing a high number of hip and knee surgeries have significantly lower complication rates and readmissions than other hospitals, per a recent study in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.1
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Hospitals Do Not Know Own Outcomes
Hospitals depend so much on outcomes data to determine quality, but one researcher says most hospital don’t even know their outcomes. That leads them to make critical decisions based on faulty information, says Donald Fry, MD, executive vice president for clinical outcomes management with MPA Healthcare Solutions in Chicago, and adjunct professor of surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Manage Transition from ED to ICU for Better
ED volumes have risen with expanded coverage through the Affordable Care Act and are likely to remain high, putting more pressure on hospitals for an efficient process for transitioning patients from the ED to the ICU. Tracking key metrics is a first step in improving that transition process, which includes ensuring that patients are not unnecessarily admitted to the costly ICU, where few guidelines exist to establish protocols for ICU admissions and their transition of care.