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Proposed changes in a Joint Commission infection control standard may accelerate the trend toward mandatory influenza vaccination policies.
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When Ocean Medical Center in Brick, NJ, and Meridian At Home care agency collaborated on a remote monitoring program for heart failure patients, the readmission rate for heart failure dropped from 14.93% before the program began to 4.84% in the first eight months of the pilot program.
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The release by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of a proposed rule to govern the operation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), a new form of organization that may consist of physicians, hospitals, other health care providers and suppliers, has drawn a mixture of praise and criticism from quality experts interviewed by HBQI.
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Patient safety professionals are moving toward more prominence and stature in the health care community with the recent launch of the first professional organization devoted to their work.
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When patients don't follow their discharge plan and end up back in the hospital or fail to keep their chronic disease under control, resulting in complications, it could be that they simply don't understand what they're expected to do.
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The H1N1 influenza pandemic might prompt lasting changes in the personal protective equipment for healthcare workers and the rules that govern them.
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Quality professionals will tell you that one of the greatest barriers to success is lack of physician buy-in; but that buy-in is often difficult to achieve.
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From 1985 to 2008, all first-ever strokes in the city of Dijon, France (150,000 inhabitants) were recorded, and among those patients who were testable (3201/3948 or 81%), 20.4% had post-stroke dementia.
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A small study of the effects of acute cell phone use on brain glucose metabolism revealed significant increases in areas near the location of a phone's antenna. The findings do not imply that cell phone use causes brain damage, only that the electromagnetic fields from them do cause changes in brain function.
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Physicians often do not choose the same clinical treatments for themselves as they would recommend to their patients.