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Nearly every reference source discussing the primary management of advanced ovarian cancer will highlight the role of surgical cytoreduction as an important first step in the care of this disease.
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A structured search and analysis was conducted of all published articles describing historical and physical features of children with culture-confirmed bacterial meningitis.
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Post-marketing surveillance outside the United States of the two FDA-licensed rotavirus vaccines, RotaTeq (Merck, licensed in 2006) and Rotarix (GSK Biologicals, licensed in 2008), have identified a very low but increased risk (1 case/100,000 vaccinated infants) of intussusception following Rotarix vaccination.
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The authors tested samples sent to stanford hospital microbiology laboratory for diagnosis of C. difficile infection (CDI).
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Health care professionals working in the area of hospital discharge planning might find that the most effective way to understand how patients perceive their communication is to go through the process themselves.
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One strategy hospitals can employ to improve their readmission rate is to use evidence-based tools and processes at discharge.
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Health care systems that lack quality improvement projects to reduce their readmission rates or fail to discuss utilization issues with private payers, third-party administrators (TPAs), and others already are stuck in 20th-century thinking and habits, experts say.
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A hospital's discharge process could be well-organized and include best practices. But what happens when patients are kept in an acute care bed, because the usual care transition options will not work?
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Once a health care system decides to improve its discharge planning process, the difficult next step is collecting information about what doesn't work and how to improve flawed processes.