Study: Death Rates Rise Under Lower Skilled Staff
A large European study published online in BMJ Quality and Safety shows that the chances of a patient dying in hospital under the watch... Read more
Navigating Healthcare Uncertainty Until U.S. Presidential Inauguration
The outcome of the recent U.S. presidential election which saw Republican Donald Trump victorious has shed an uncertain light onto healthcare... Read more
Health Leadership in Europe Leveraged in New Media Partnership
The European Association of Hospital Managers (EAHM) and HealthManagement.org Enter New Agreement EAHM and HealthManagement.org... Read more
Trump Wins Presidency: U.S. Healthcare Leaders Forced to Rethink Future
Republican Donald Trump shocked the U.S. and the world with his victory in the presidential race on Tuesday beating main rival, Democrat... Read more
Healthcare & ACA Healthy as U.S. Votes for President?
Healthcare was a hot topic of debate ahead of this week’s U.S. presidential election with the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)... Read more
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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
Patient’s Voice to Cancel Cancer: When Accountability Becomes Responsibility
In the past decades something happened in healthcare that doesn’t benefit patients. Actually, it is what we patient advocates call ‘Dying is safer’. For some of the stakeholders in the medical industrial complex it is safer to let patients die than to act. We can think of experimental medicines for patients with an unmet medical need. Why not... 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
From Our Journals
Nursing on the Move: cross-border hiring
Addressing pitfalls and best practice examples for successful hiring... Read more
Treatment of bleeding patients during therapy with direct oral anticoagulants
Results from the French registry: GIHP-NACO Presents results... Read more
Junior Faculty Support: How To Do It and Why It Matters
An overview of the themes of support from the perspective of junior... Read more
Anti-Ageing Therapies: From Basic Science to Human Application
Summary: At the turn of the twenty-first century, our understanding... Read more
ICU Mental Health in the Ongoing Pandemic: How Will We Be Okay?
After a year of this pandemic, this article explores what we currently... Read more
A Snapshot of Imaging Technology: Exciting Developments and When to Expect Them
Conversations with thousands of clinicians have given KLAS Research... Read more