'Collaboration' Biggest Challenge for Healthcare Lean Management
Use of Lean management methodology to improve care efficiencies is new for healthcare. A new report in The Journal of Nursing Administration... Read more
Future Nursing Supply Set to Drop
As previously predicted, nursing shortage ten years from now may not be as dire as initially forecasted. However research still suggests that... Read more
Accountable Care Organization Model Reduces Medicare Spending
A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine reports that a new Medicare payment model reduced the number of times patients received services... Read more
Obesity Surgery - Who Should Get Priority?
According to new research published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, obese patients with type 2 diabetes, especially those with recent... Read more
IOM Report: Teamwork Critical for Improved Diagnosis
Data on diagnostic errors are sparse, few reliable measures exist and errors are often found in retrospect, an independent research committee... Read more
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So Why am I Worrying Now? Thoughts from the UK on Pandemic Times
My Dear Readers, Time is flying, and here I am again, sharing my thoughts as a registered nurse working during a very dramatic time. The first half of the year of 2021 is over. If you reflect now, one can not comprehend of what has happened in the world during these last months. It is almost impossible. Where will one start and stop?... Read more
What About Post-Corona?
Is there a time after COVID-19? Do you regularly hear the question of what we will do after COVID-19? Or what should we do? This is a strange question, because there will be no time after Coronavirus. Corona is an endemic virus, that is among us and does not go away. There is also no time after Influenza. Endemic viruses are here. We need to take... Read more
While perioperative care is optimized, patients die unmonitored in wards!
There is a high demand for a comfortable, small and mobile solution for affordable blood pressure and vital sign monitoring in the general ward to improve patient safety and outcome, as mortality after surgery is a thousand times higher than intraoperative death. 1 CNSystems has enhanced its non-invasive CNAP® technology for perioperative... Read more
White Papers and Case Studies
Liver Fibrosis: Patients Can Be At Risk Of Death Even Without Exhibiting Symptoms
2020 18 Dec
1 in 5 advanced fibrosis patients evolves to cirrhosis in as little as two and a half years. The liver is the largest gland in the human body and, weighing roughly two kilograms, it is the second largest organ after the skin. Its varied functions include supplying the brain with glucose, filtering toxins out of the blood, producing proteins,... Read more
Spotlight On: Sutter Health Fights Pneumonia One Toothbrush at a Time
2020 23 Apr
Pneumonia can be deadly in a hospital setting. Two main factors contribute to the approximately 20 percent mortality rate of this healthcare-associated infection (HAI). First, whatever condition brought the patient to the hospital in the first place has likely weakened them, making the patient more vulnerable to the illness. Plus, the germs that patients... Read more
Spotlight On: Inova Fairfax Medical Campus Reduces CLABSI with APSS #2
2020 23 Apr
HAIs are costly both in terms of harm/mortality and cost. Close attention to aseptic practices and monitoring patients can greatly reduce the incidence of these infections. Central Line-Associated Bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are the most costly type of hospital-acquired infections, both in terms of morbidity and mortality, and financial... Read more
From Our Journals
3D printing at the Jacobs Institute: an update
A t t he f o re f r o n t o f n e u r... Read more
Makerspaces
An Opportunity for the Future 3D makerspaces could help hospitals... Read more
Oxygen Therapy in Intensive Care Medicine
An overview of current recommendations for oxygen administration in different... Read more
Will the Hospital of the Future Be Our Home
Already, healthcare is being outsourced to the home in a bid to encourage... Read more
Ultrasound-guided mechanical ventilation
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is now a tool used worldwide, integrating... Read more
Coagulopathy During Cardiac Surgery: The Role of Factor Concentrates
The EACTS/EACTA Guidelines on patient blood management for adult cardiac... Read more