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Lakewood, CO-based HealthGrades, whose web site is a leading consumer destination for nationwide quality ratings of hospitals, physicians, and nursing homes, has opened for review its methodology for comparing the nations hospitals in terms of quality. HealthGrades claims 1 million consumers log on to its site each month.
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An international group of researchers has created a risk-predicting tool that enables clinicians to calculate the chances that a particular patient will die within six months of going home from the hospital after a heart attack or unstable angina episode. Their work was detailed in an article in the June 9, 2004, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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If all hospitals met the quality standards for five high-risk surgeries set by the Washington, DC-based Leapfrog Group, it would save nearly 8,000 lives each year, according to a new study from the University of Michigan (UM) Health System in Ann Arbor.
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Readers looking for the latest reference on family planning methods and practice can obtain the 18th edition of Contraceptive Technology, to be published this summer.
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An average of 195,000 people in the United States died from potentially preventable medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001, and 2002, a new study from the health care quality company HealthGrades Inc. estimates. This puts the annual death toll at nearly twice the rate indicated by previous studies.
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Although recognized as a legitimate illness for more than a decade, many health care providers still refuse to acknowledge attention-deficit disorder (ADD) as an affliction affecting adults, say behavioral health experts.
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If you have exhibited at least 12 of the following behaviors since childhood, and if these symptoms are not associated with any other medical or psychiatric condition, consider an evaluation by a team of AD/HD professionals.
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It is heartbreaking dilemma faced by hospital staff everywhere a patient is brought to the emergency department (ED) unconscious, the victim of a severe stroke or brain hemorrhage that leaves the person incapacitated and unable to participate in decisions about his or her care.
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The cause of normal aging has been widely studied, and a large number of nuclear factors have been implicated in normal aging including DNA polymerase, P53, and klotho.
