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Several key innovations contributed to the success of the Wipe Out Waiting (WOW) initiative in the emergency department (ED) of Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, CA, part of the Adventist Health System.
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Aligning with the health care customer service model of the Studer Group whose Road Map to Excellence is guided by five pillars: service, quality, people, finance, and growth was a natural fit for Providence Health System, says Patricia Weygandt, manager of access services at Providence Milwaukie (OR), one of three system hospitals in the Portland area.
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Health care organizations are discovering, as many industries have already learned, that thriving even surviving in a competitive marketplace means concentrating their talent and experience on what they do best, and offloading noncore services and administrative functions to vendors who can do them better, faster, and cheaper.
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CMS makes change to critical access rule; NPI final rule released by CMS; Study: Providers getting better terms
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To clarify nitroglycerins ability to distinguish ischemic chest pain, Henrickson and colleagues studied symptomatic patients in an academic emergency department, evaluating nitroglycerins responsiveness as a predictor of coronary artery disease (CAD).
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The objective of this prospective observational study was to determine if there was a significant difference in time to clinical stability between patients with moderate-to-severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) who received their antibiotics within four hours and those who received antibiotics after four hours.
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In a multicenter study of occupational HIV exposures, 38% of source patients had genotype mutations associated with resistance to antiretroviral drugs. Recent antiretroviral treatment history was highly associated with resistance.
