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This study examined the effect of variations in ICU staffing, defined in terms of intensivist-to-ICU bed ratio, on ICU length-of-stay (LOS) and ICU and hospital mortality. The study was conducted at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN over a 9-month period when the medical ICU underwent a series of planned changes which resulted in its capacity increasing from 15 to 24 beds.
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In a previous study involving patients in a surgical ICU1, Van den Berghe and associates at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, showed that tight control of serum glucose levels by means of a strict insulin infusion protocol decreased both morbidity and mortality.
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Implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and especially its Privacy Rule, has affected everyone who works in health care. This study from the University of Michigan sought to determine the potential effect of the Privacy Rule on the conduct of clinical research in the form of a telephone interview-based follow-up study.
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Doering and colleagues used a nonrandomized, comparative, longitudinal design to study 72 patients after CABG surgery to investigate the association among depressive symptoms, infections, and impaired wound healing.
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In this prospective study, cook and associates looked at prevalence and incidence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) as diagnosed by compression ultrasonography in ICU patients.
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Simulation training has a long history with examples ranging from modeling in the animal kingdom (eg, a lion teaching hunting skills to a cub), to war games designed to better prepare soldiers for battle.
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A systematic search of the literature from 1984 to 2004 was conducted in order to answer the question posed by the title of this article: How frequently is venous thromboembolism in heparin-treated patients associated with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT)?
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This study reports findings from a survey of 2,323 ICU nurses regarding their intention to leave due to working conditions and factors predicting this intention. The sample was part of a larger study of patient safety that involved 110 ICUs from 66 hospitals across the United States.
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Antiaging Supplements Proven Ineffective; The Three Most Common Culprits of ADE; New Guidelines for Lyme Disease Prevention; FDA Actions
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A previously described "closed-loop knowledge based system" placed into a standard ventilator may be used to guide weaning via the pressure support mode.