Public Reporting of Clinical Data: Question of Reliability
Public reporting of healthcare and patient safety information has allowed patients to play an increasing role in their own healthcare decisions.... Read more
STOP-IT Trial Shows Antibiotic Use Can Be Reduced
According to researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and 22 other institutions, the duration of antibiotic treatment for... Read more
Novel laboratory Aims to Improve Population Health, Prepare Transformational Leaders
The Indiana University Center for Health Innovation and Implementation Science has developed a novel laboratory that employs the tools of implementation science... Read more
Greece: Finding the Finest Tools in Hospital Management for Change by Theodoros P. Dimopoulos
Today’s Health-care System in Greece suffers from many “diseases”. After five years of financial adjustment, Greek Healthcare officials and some... Read more
5 Hospital Benefits of Patient-Centred Care
The patient-centred care model benefits patients who become more empowered and receive better care. More than a trend, industry experts and policy... 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
Intensive Care Medicine: Reflections on the Gender Gap
Is the gender gap a concern for intensive care medicine (ICM)? ICM... Read more
Challenges in the Management of Severe SARS-CoV2 Infection in Elderly Patients
Elderly patients have damaging and serious complications when they... Read more
Getting Started with a Health Blog
The Internet is full of blogs. They are multi-themed sites, self-managed... Read more
Benchmarking: Lessons Learnt
Benchmarking —comparing your own results with those of others—has the... Read more
A human-centric approach for data collection
The promise of personalised medicine Based on extensive Read more
Patient Communication in Radiology - Learning From COVID-19 Experience
Nothing will be the same after the coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19... Read more