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The performance improvement team at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has used an employee opinion survey as a guidepost to opportunities for improvement.
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By its very nature and location, the emergency department (ED) inextricably is bound to the rest of the hospital; what occurs there has profound repercussions throughout the facility.
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Insufficient evidence exists to prove that disease management programs can lower overall health care costs, concluded the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in an Oct. 13, 2004, press release.
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What sets one quality improvement program apart from all the others? To hear the staff at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, CA, tell it, it's the unique relationship between the physicians and nurses.
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Clinicians should become confident in management of constipation for numerous reasons, not the least of which is the sheer magnitude of its prevalence in the ambulatory setting.
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The first head-to-head comparison study of an ACE inhibitor and an angiotensin receptor blocker, to assess renoprotective effects in type 2 diabetes, has shown that the drugs are comparable in their benefit.
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Its a common observation when the discussion is about return-to-work plans: Every return to work plan is different because every employee/patient is different. But what about cases that are really different when the employee has been off work for five years or is returning after a traumatic injury that not only affected the employee, but also the co-workers who witnessed it?
