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Health care delivery has grown more sophisticated and complex in response to changing patient needs and emerging technologies.
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After experiencing a recent pilot survey for
the new Shared Visions New Pathways Accreditation Process, staff at Wallingford, CT-based Masonic Healthcare Center gave glowing reports. There really were no surprises encountered during this survey, says Arthur E. Santilli, MS, MPH, CHE, president.
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When it came to streamlining the way patients, referring physicians, and other interested parties contact Geisinger Health System in Danville, PA, for various access-related services, it seems that one good idea led to another.
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In just two short years, the Jefferson Regional Medical Center Wound Care Center in Jefferson Hills, PA, has achieved impressive net revenues and recorded a healing rate nearly twice as fast as that achieved through conventional wound care.
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Winning physician buy-in, one of the toughest challenges in any process improvement (PI) endeavor, was the key to success in a PI project undertaken by Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, MD. The project, which targeted clinical PI in pneumonia, realized a reduction in average length of stay (LOS) from 5.7 days to five days between 2001 and 2003, along with significant drops in resource utilization.
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SYNERGY: The superior yield of the new Strategy of Enoxaparin, Revascularization, and Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibitors trial was presented by Dr. Kenneth Mahaffey and colleagues; WATCH: The Warfarin and Antiplatelet Trial in Chronic Heart failure was presented by Barry Massie, MD, from San Francisco.
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Metabolic syndrome, but not obesity alone, was associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular events. The presence of MS in individuals with angiographic CAD at study entry substantially increased the likelihood of death and major adverse cardiovascular events.
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The NIH has halted the estrogen-alone wing of the Womens Health Initiative a year before its scheduled end.
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