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Health System Focuses on Education Outreach
With the healthcare and insurance industries changing at a dizzying pace, consumers can easily be left confused about an important aspect of their lives. Some hospitals and health systems are finding that helping them understand how it all works can improve patient satisfaction and even quality of care.
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Patient Secretly Records Disparaging Remarks in Surgery
Customer service and public image took a big hit at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston recently when a patient revealed that she had recorded her surgical team making disparaging remarks about during a procedure to repair a hiatal hernia.
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CAUTI Nearly Eliminated, Major Savings from Nurse Project
A Washington hospital has greatly reduced catheter-associated urinary tract infections, improved quality, and yielded a significant savings for the hospital, all the result of a nursing-led initiative that included T-shirts, Starbucks cards, and Skittles.
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Nurses Take the Lead with Improvement Projects
Sometimes it takes those on the front line to really bring change to a hospital, and critical care nurses at seven Washington hospitals have proven so with quality improvement projects that reduced communication-related medical errors by 80% and catheter infections by 92%.
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EHRs, Devices Threaten Quality and Patient Satisfaction
Electronic health records and various devices bring countless benefits to the healthcare experience, but evidence is mounting that EHRs also threaten quality and patient satisfaction when clinicians spend too much time looking at a screen instead of the patient.
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ED Push - May 2016 Second Issue
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Pediatric Seizures
Although benzodiazepines remain the first-line therapy, awareness of next steps in therapy is necessary.
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In Memoriam
On May 4, 2016, Dan Mishell, MD, passed away at home surrounded by family.
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Vulvar Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions
The International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease adapted Lower Anogenital Squamous Terminology to the specifics of the vulva and released the 2015 terminology. Vulvar Low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion is benign and includes HPV effect and flat condyloma. Vulvarhigh-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion is the usual HPV-associated type of high-grade vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia and the non-HPV-associated type is labeled differentiated-type vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia.
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Colpocleisis: Body Image, Satisfaction, and Regret at 24 Week
Colpocleisis is an effective surgical treatment for pelvic organ prolapse. Women report high satisfaction and low regret.