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A regional hospital in a Southern rural state found that its hospital discharge process improved when the institution focused on refining its goals and improving collaboration between disciplines.
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When research suggests changes in standard medical practice, the public health community expects physicians and hospitals to adopt the new way and help improve patient outcomes.
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Several new studies highlight the need for more thorough discharge planning in the care of coronary and congestive heart failure patients. Such patients often are elderly and susceptible to adverse events and drug-drug interactions from standard medication treatment.
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The National Institutes of Health and the city of Washington, D.C. recently announced the new D.C. Partnership for HIV/AIDS Progress, a collaborative research initiative between NIH and the D.C. Department of Health designed to decrease the rate of new HIV infections in the city, improve the health of district residents living with HIV infection, and strengthen the city's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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As HIV clinicians in Cleveland, OH, were testing a symptom management intervention, they found there weren't any good scales available.
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Health care providers have struggled with instituting routine HIV screening for adolescents and most adults since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recommended such testing for everyone between 13 and 64 years of age in 2006.
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In December 2009, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG ) released a clinical management guideline recommending changes to cervical cancer screening guidelines.
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Look back to results of the 2004 Contraceptive Technology Update Contraception Survey: Just 30% of survey respondents said they inserted six or more intrauterine contraceptives in the past year.
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This issue marks the 30th anniversary of Contraceptive Technology Update.
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