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Some very common and some seemingly innocuous medications can have a very deleterious impact on older patients.
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Calling patients after hospital discharge is a good quality improvement and patient satisfaction strategy, but it is often difficult to implement because of resource restraints.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on April 13 released the 2009 National Healthcare Quality Report and the National Healthcare Disparities Report, which are used by a variety of health care stakeholders to evaluate quality and access to care.
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When a hospital in downtown Knoxville, TN, closed and volume soared at other nearby hospitals, two hospitals in the Covenant Health System joined forces to develop a systematic approach to capacity management that allows each hospital to create variances in the process to meet its individual needs.
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The health care system benefits when unnecessary hospital admissions are avoided, and sometimes the best place to impact that trend is by focusing discharge services on the hospital emergency department (ED), an expert says.
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Patients at Duke University Hospital's cancer clinics have begun using electronic tablets to complete questionnaires about their health situation, and staffers are extremely pleased with the results.
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With a coordinated double-whammy, The Joint Commission and a group of quality experts, including current president, Mark R. Chassin, MD, MPP, MPH, have served notice on the QI community that they'd like things to change in a major way.
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This subset analysis from a larger prospective, multicenter HIV-HCV coinfection treatment trial found that patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in combination with pegylated interferon alfa and ribavirin for HCV were at greater risk for lactic acidosis and hyperlactatemia than those receiving HCV treatment alone.
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A retrospective observational study was conducted on 30 individuals from a possible 49 persons who were treated for schistosomiasis between 2003 and 2008 at Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark.