... of the American College of Surgeons shows that the establishment of an acute care surgery service can help surgeons ... patients receiving consultations and procedures performed by an acute care surgery service at EVMS. The service ...
... patients who were transferred to a long-term acute care hospital after a critical illness tripled, and the 1 ... . The authors found that the absolute number of long-term acute care transfers, as well as transfers as a proportion ...
... in the journal Age and Ageing suggests that timely acute care immediately after a stroke reduces the level ... in stroke survivors and the associated need for long-term care, therefore reducing aftercare costs ...
... outside of a hospital. The results of a survey of all 73 acute care hospitals in New Jersey evaluating the adoption and implementation of this life-saving treatment from 2004 ...
An acute care surgery model led to improvement in the quality of surgical patient care and reduced the cost of emergency surgical care at a California medical center.
... to experience a serious adverse event leading to an acute care hospital admission or death. Those in the atypical antipsychotic group were 1.9 times more likely ...
... lost to premature death and more than 88,000 acute care hospital days in Canada per ... intervention to reduce avoidable costs in health care, criminality and productivity losses was the brief interventions ...
... crashes by examining discharge data compiled from all acute care hospitals in the state. They found an increase of 42 ... for non-head injured motorcyclists. Total acute care hospital charges stemming from motorcycle ...
... consensus standards focused on measuring the performance of acute care hospitals, including measures addressing ... employers in a community, anymore, and may not have the purchasing health care to effect changes, according to the study. "However, larger ...
... obscured by the messy reality of illness, multi-faceted treatments, and the rapid pace and complexity of an acute care hospital" The measure proposed here ...
... influenza pandemic hits the United States, acute care hospitals are likely to be overwhelmed. Nursing ... say. To relieve some of that burden, additional sites known as Acute Care Centers and Neighborhood Emergency Help ...
... hospitalisation for at least three days, the total acute care cost of this type of injury alone ... likely to produce significant savings in acute trauma care costs.'' The study, funded by TARN ... in those that die or are severely disabled and in long-term care. Trauma is the most expensive, and neglected, 'disease' to society ...
... to work. The findings have important implications for U.S. acute care hospitals. Smaller scale investigations ... , and intervention procedures for injured patients treated in acute care hospitals nationwide," said Douglas Zatzick ...
... Implications of Portable Human Patient Simulation in Acute Care Medicine," the researchers describe the adaptation ... some limitations of traditional simulation, with an emphasis on the effects on acute care and disaster training. For example, mobile ...
... crisis in Quebec spurred greater investments in acute care hospital infection control program ... control resources and programming is needed in Canadian acute care hospitals," the researchers say. "Not making the required ...
