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Incentivize patients and they will walk
There is ample evidence that early walking can help surgical patients avoid complications like ileus, deep vein thrombosis and pneumonia.
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Stop the Racket
A coalition of organizations involved in surgery is worried about how new technologies increase the noise and distraction levels in the operating room and otherwise affect patient safety and privacy.
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ASQ healthcare costs and quality survey findings
Read the story behind the survey's findings here.
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ASQ health survey highlights communication, patient experience
The link between quality, the patient experience, and satisfaction received more data support in April with the release of the American Society of Quality’s healthcare survey report.
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Patient experience gains a foothold
There was a time, very recently, when Jason Wolf, PhD, the president of the Beryl Institute in Washington, DC, could talk about patient experience and people would think he was referring to the food you get in hospitals or whether the parking was easy. But it goes beyond that.
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Beta-blocker, Shmeta-blocker…Or Are There Important Differences?
Whether clinicians should choose pharmacotherapy based on central BP effects has not been confirmed, although hypertension guidelines throughout the world have increasingly recognized the inadequacy of traditional beta-blockers in comparison to most other classes of agents and relegated them to a lower position on the therapeutic ladder.
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Initial Orthostatic Hypotension: An Under-Recognized Form of Orthostatic Hypotension
Initial orthostatic hypotension represents a population at risk for falls, which may be missed with traditional methods of orthostatic BP measurement.
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Delay in Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Diagnostic delays are common among patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. -
A Glimmer of Hope for Beta-Blockers in Heart Failure from Diastolic Dysfunction
Because these data are observational in nature, they cannot definitively establish whether beta-blocker treatment reduces mortality in d-CHF, but they provide strong impetus to perform a large randomized trial to ultimately answer the question. -
Left Atrial Appendage Closure: Another Possible Interventional Fix for Atrial Fibrillation
Left atrial appendage closure may be another reasonable option for reduction of stroke risk in atrial fibrillation.