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A 16-year-old high school football star was in the back seat of a car when the driver lost control and ran off the road. He underwent emergency surgery at a hospital for a ruptured stomach. However, the treating physicians and staff failed to diagnose and treat his fractured spine. The delay in treatment and failure to immobilize the patient resulted in the teen-ager being permanently paralyzed.
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New research is showing that recombinant factor VIIa [rFVIIa] (NovoSeven) shows promise in the treatment of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). The Phase IIb study demonstrated that the use of the hemophilia drug in ICH patients led to a significant reduction in hematoma growth when given within four hours of onset.
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Various food-drug interactions can result in an increase or decrease in the effectiveness of the object drug. Thats why pharmacists need to know the most potentially important food-drug interactions and the appropriate way to manage the interaction.
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Cost-related underuse of heart meds may have adverse outcomes; Many consumers do not favor off-label drug use; Medicare extends access to self-administered drugs; Pfizer expands access to its prescription medications; Pharmacists are critical link to people with pain.
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Chiron Corp. has initiated a new Phase II study of aldesleukin (Proleukin) interleukin-2 (IL-2) plus rituximab in rituximab-naive patients with low-grade non-Hodgkins lymphoma to determine the combinations potential in patients receiving rituximab for the first time.
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In 1997, the ED at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, IN, was in the 45th percentile in South Bend, IN-based Press Ganey Associates satisfaction rankings. That same year, Southern Ohio Medical Center in Portsmouth, languished in the ninth percentile.
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The ED at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, MN, has been able to increase the percentage of criteria blood draws from 31% to 41% one of the keys to slashing lab specimen turnaround time. But since only a specific percentage of patients meet the criteria at any given time, how is that possible?
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has published a revised survey instrument and proposed administration instructions for the patient perceptions of care survey known as HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Plans).
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The latest requirements from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) call for more detailed evaluation of processes than ever before, causing one health care system to look to industry for the tools needed to respond appropriately.
