Hospital Aesthetics Not Enough To Improve Patient Satisfaction
Patient satisfaction ratings do not rise in proportion to hospital renovation expenditures, according to a pre- and post-evaluation study conducted... Read more
EAHP Calls for Universal Use of Electronic Prescribing Across Europe
Ahead of its annual Congress in Hamburg, which is focused on the topic of patient safety, the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP)... Read more
28 February is Rare Disease Day 2015
Rare Disease Day is observed on the final day of February each year. What began as a European event has become a worldwide campaign, with thousands... Read more
Measuring Physician Compassion: Patients Respond to Optimism
Many physicians struggle to deliver bad news to cancer patients. They must balance the need to honestly inform patients about their prognoses... Read more
Pressure To Prescribe: More Antibiotics Ordered Where Physicians Compete With Clinics
Wealthier areas of the US have more antibiotic prescriptions written per capita, where there is greater competition among care providers, according... Read more
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Patient’s Voice to Cancel Cancer: Autonomy for Patient and Oncologist – That Helps
Let’s start with a quip. When you want to become an oncologist, you only need three or four years of primary school. You need to be able to read and write. The pathologist will tell you what type of cancer the patient has, you can read in the protocol what to do, what the treatment is, and for the dose you need to know: ‘Is it a man or a woman,... Read more
Nurse’s View: “How Are You, Nurse?”
If somebody had asked me this question, “How are you, nurse?” 6-8 weeks ago, I would have probably cried. The situation in Great Britain was pretty tough, worse than in March-April 2020, when the whole crisis of COVID-19 started for us in the UK! I guess no other European country had to go through that bushfire we have to go through with the... Read more
Patients’ Voice to Cancel Cancer: From Shooting In the Dark We Can Become a Sniper
“Cancer is a mobile disease. It changes while you look at it. Treat it like tuberculosis; 4 drugs for one year, at the same time!” Professor David Tuveson, CSHL We do not execute what we already know! Patients are dying because the scientific knowledge that is available today is not implemented to improve the... Read more
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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
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Digital Healthcare Systems
Now More than Ever Digital Healthcare Systems are needed... Read more
Sedation in Acute Brain Injury: Less is More?
Over the past decades, landmark interventional studies in general intensive1!ca Read more
Early Diagnosis and Prediction of Acute Kidney Injury
penKid – A Dynamic Inflammation-Independent Biomarker Of Kidney (Dys)function... Read more
Abelardo Vidaurreta
Head of Innovation, Salauno, Mexico City, Mexico We cannot... Read more
Clinical audit: the pilot Eurosafe Imaging Star project
Lessons learned from using the European Society of Radiology clinical... Read more
Power to the People: How the Economics of Information is Empowering Patients
During the 2000s, England’s National Health Service spent an extra $1.5... Read more
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