... Quality Forum endorsed 48 voluntary consensus standards focused on measuring the performance of acute care hospitals, including measures addressing pediatric safety, hospital readmission, and ...
... to 5.2 per 1,000 hospital admissions. Another deadly bacterium, VRE ( ... resources and programming is needed in Canadian acute care hospitals," the researchers say.
"Not making the required investments ...
... vascular surgery at 3,270 acute care hospitals in the United States between 2000 and 2005. ... rates of death within 30 days, in-hospital complications and the probability of death following complications ...
... of infection prevention and control in Canadian acute-care hospitals, that have led to implementation of increased infection ... (51 per cent) of long-term care facilities are conducting less than 80 per ...
... indirect transfers among all 31 acute care hospitals in Orange County, CA, a large ... people, using a retrospective evaluation of 2005 California Hospital Discharge Data. Huang and colleagues examined ...
... in the April 16, 2009 print edition.
The national survey, conducted in 2008, was sent to all acute-care hospitals that are members of the American Hospital Association; responses came from 2,952 ...
... ) -- Men who drink 22 or more units of alcohol a week have a 20% higher rate of admissions into acute care hospitals than non-drinkers, researchers from the University of Glasgow have ...
... risk-standardized mortality rates (RSMRs) for acute care hospitals in the United States in the period between 1995 ... 1995 to 16.1 percent in 2006, and in-hospital mortality decreased from 14.6 percent ...
... economic consequences of healthcare-acquired-infections arising among admissions to Australian acute care hospitals.
Professor Graves said the research revealed there was an opportunity to improve ...
... therapy group were 2.4 times more likely to experience a serious adverse event leading to an acute care hospital admission or death. Those in the atypical antipsychotic group were 1. ...
... premature death and more than 88,000 acute care hospital days in Canada per year. ... intervention to reduce avoidable costs in health care, criminality and productivity losses was the brief interventions ...
... by examining discharge data compiled from all acute care hospitals in the state. They found an increase of 42 percent in ... protect riders and lower the cost of health care," said Hank Weiss, Ph.D., M.P ...
... the messy reality of illness, multi-faceted treatments, and the rapid pace and complexity of an acute care hospital"
The measure proposed here, while preliminary, indicates that 66% of prescriptions ...
If an influenza pandemic hits the United States, acute care hospitals are likely to be overwhelmed. Nursing homes may then be expected to assist with the patient overflow, but a new study in the ...
... followed 2707 injured patients from 69 hospitals across the country, and found 20.7% had post- ... procedures for injured patients treated in acute care hospitals nationwide," said Douglas Zatzick, M.D., ...
