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The Importance of Understanding IT Values in Elderly Care
Elderly care is one area where information technology (IT) is rapidly gaining ground. An increase in the number of elderly, and a demand for more advanced help and support, together with a desire to make it possible for the elderly to live in their own homes for as long as possible, force decision makers and healthcare professionals to develop better...
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Pre-Hospital Therapeutic Hypothermia: Will it Save a Life
Therapeutic hypothermia has emerged as one of the hottest topics in critical care medicine and although a few continue to debate the proven benefits of induced hypothermia, many have accepted its use as a treatment modality for multiple illnesses and injuries. As the benefit has become more evident within the hospital, practitioners have looked for...
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A Matter of Cost or of Effectiveness?
In this article, we will firstly present the case of two patients for whom, despite similar medical conditions, different therapies were advised, to highlight the inequality in access to medical technologies in Europe. Then, we will look at the matter of cost-effectiveness – are patients being differently treated in the same cases, due to financial...
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Measuring Quality of Life
Patients developing critical illness have been associated with substantial attributable mortality rates. However, it may drastically impact quality of life (QOL) as well. Therefore, intensivists should also be concerned with health status and functioning after discharge of the critical care department. In this overview, the impact of critical illness...
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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: What Every Manager Needs to Know
Author Associate Hospital Director Teknon Medical Center Barcelona, Spain [email protected] also: Adjunct Assistant Professor Boston University School of Medicine Boston, US A The fundamental principle of economic analysis is that choices have to be made between alternative uses of resources, as there is a...
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How to Save Lives and Influence People
Dr. Peter Pronovost, Medical Director at the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care, Professor in the Department of Anaesthesiology/ Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine and ICU Management Editorial Board Member explains to Sherry Scharff how one simple strategy has not only saved patients and improved safety...
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The French Healthcare System
Social Protection System The social protection system was created in 1945 aimed primarily at workers and their families. The expansion of health insurance coverage was implemented in stages during the 1960s. The Universal Health Coverage Act (CMU) concluded this process in 1999 by establishing universal health coverage. Today, three main health...
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Governance and Geriatrics
Can hospitals deal with an aging population and a rising prevalence of Alzheimer's disease? The new governance structure, Hospital 2007*, strives to meet this pressing challenge. It will undoubtedly produce other care sections, more gerontology networks, provide better support for the local hospital and regulations for general and regional hospitals....
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Effective Organisation: National Union of Hospital Managerial Staff
The National union of hospital managerial staff (SNCH) is an organisation, which exclusively represents managerial staff working in hospitals. The SNCH was founded in 1947 by head storekeepers. Gradually, it started accepting all hospital managerial staff, and now covers administrative and technical staff, as well as doctors and nurses. The definition...
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Report from the 2nd Therapeutic Temperature Management Congress
The attention for the role of temperature in the development of tissue injury is increasing. Large observational studies show that development of fever is linked to an increase in the severity of neurological injury, and to an increased risk of adverse outcome in ischaemic stroke, subarachnoid haemorrhage, traumatic brain injury and post-anoxic injury...
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