-
To examine the association between being placed in contact isolation and delirium, Day and colleagues at the University of Maryland Medical Center reviewed administrative data on all patients admitted during a 2-year period ending in 2009.
-
After considerable controversy that included strong objections by the nation's leading occupational health agency, a federal vaccine committee has approved a recommendation that health care facilities strongly consider mandatory flu immunization of workers if voluntary efforts fail to achieve high vaccination rates.
-
The medical community appears to be deeply divided over a federal recommendation that would push the health system toward mandatory flu shot policies for health care workers.
-
-
This clinical study evaluated patients with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome to determine the kind of seizures they experienced, abnormalities on EEG, and to correlate this with findings on neuroimaging (MRI).
-
28 surgical specimens from patients with necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) were examined using multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to detect gastrointestinal pathogens. Infectious enteritis pathogens were not detected in any specimens.
-
-
Wider use of noninvasive ventilation in managing severe COPD exacerbations has improved overall outcomes, but this study of a large nationwide database shows that increasing numbers of patients fail NIV and require intubation. This subset of patients has substantially higher mortality and hospital costs.
-
Shah et al used an administrative database, the California State Inpatient Database from the Healthcare Utilization Project, to analyze the short and intermediate success and complication rates associated with catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF).
-