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Physicians aligned with Sutter Health in Sacramento, CA, are giving glowing reviews to a care coordination program they once failed to recognize, pleased that it is meeting myriad patients needs and saving office time in the bargain.
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How would you like to be able to tell patients, their families and friends, payers, and news reporters that you are among a select few organizations certified by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Primary Stroke Center Certification program?
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The manufacturing industry has been using lean techniques for several years to improve productivity, eliminate waste, improve the quality of their products, and lower costs.
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The shared vision of providing safe, quality patient care was very evident during a recent Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations survey at the 59th Medical Wing at Lackland (TX) Air Force Base, reports Lt. Col. Biancanieves Garza, NC, CPHQ, chief of compliance and performance improvement.
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When you think about the new Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations survey process, do you envision surveyors talking to your organizations least articulate staff members, selecting patients to trace for whom everything possible has gone wrong, and arriving at units when your most experienced nurses are nowhere in sight?
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The diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE) remains a challenge. Thus, these investigators from Basel, Switzerland hypothesized that a marker of systemic bacterial infection such as procalcitonin may help. In 67 consecutive patients with clinical suspicion of IE, a multidisciplinary team applied the Duke criteria to make the diagnosis of IE in 21 patients.
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Ernst and colleagues from St. George Hospital in Hamburg, Germany describe a new technique for positioning and manipulating ablation catheters during electrophysiologic studies. The system is a remote magnetic navigation system, which uses 2 permanent magnets to move a specially designed catheter.
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An important publication by Zile and colleagues that have been long interested in diastolic properties of the heart, confirms that diastolic heart failure (DHF) is a real entity and is associated with significant abnormalities of active relaxation and passive stiffness in the left ventricle (LV).
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The rhythm in the Figure was obtained from a 70-year-old woman who was admitted to the hospital with a history of falling out on several occasions during the week prior to admission. Your thoughts on the case?
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Short-term Intensive Insulin Therapy in Newly Diagnosed DM2; Endothelial Dysfunction and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus; Treatment of Parkinsons Disease with Pergolide and Relation to Restrictive Valvular Heart Disease
