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Deep organ space infections are expensive to treat, to the tune of $50,000. And that figure doesn't begin to account for unrealized income due to missed work and other incalculable costs, such as distress to families.
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What a wonderful month this is: love, candy, and roses! You just have to love February regardless of your situation or what is happening in the world.
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In the Planetree model, staff don't treat patients like they'd want to be treated. Instead, they find out how the patient wants to be treated, says Linda Sharkey, RN, MSN, vice president of patient care services and chief nurse executive at Fauquier Hospital.
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The Rhode Island Department of Health is fining Rhode Island Hospital (RIH) in Providence $300,000 for what the state says is a pattern of significant surgical errors.
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Amid the successes in sharps safety in hospitals in the 21st century, there is one glaring gap: the operating room. Sharps injuries there remain as much of a problem as they were in 2000, when the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act was signed into law.
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The nurse had worked almost 17 hours in an "intense double shift" and slept less than six hours before starting her third shift, according to the Risky Business web site.
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A pilot program between New York City's Bellevue Hospital and the city's police and fire departments is designed to allow the city to test the feasibility of recovering organs from the 400-plus eligible people who die of cardiac arrest outside of Manhattan hospitals each year, according to an announcement from the city.
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Where they live can determine whether Medicare patients with advanced cancer die in a hospital or while receiving hospice care, according to the findings of a Dartmouth Atlas Project report, released in November 2010.
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A majority of patients and physicians polled in a national survey believe not only that health care delivered with compassion can make a difference in how well a patient recovers from illness it can also make a difference in whether a patient lives or dies.
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Emergency physicians and nurses require more training to manage the complex needs of growing numbers of patients who come to the emergency department for end-of-life care, according to a study published online Dec. 3, 2010, in Annals of Emergency Medicine.