Science news articles about 'american hospitals'

... to provide a systematic national overview of hospital chaplaincy based on the American Hospital Association's annual survey of hospitals. The study collected data from 1980-85; 1992-93, and ...

Compared to hotels abroad, the American hospitality industry does not yet have much of a culture of saving resources -- but some say changes are coming.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. hospitals are increasingly adding complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM, to conventional services, the American Hospital Association said.

... research fellow at HSPH and the Massachusetts General Hospital, and the article's lead author. "Even many clinicians ... represent two-thirds of American hospitals. IHI President and CEO Donald M. Berwick ...

... 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 hospitals, or approximately 63 ...

... Fourth Annual Bariatric Surgery Trends in American Hospitals Study released today identifies 88 ... . Patients in Vermont, on average, spent the most time in the hospital (3.26 days), while patients in ...

Many American hospitals are expanding their existing bans on smoking, prohibiting smoking on all hospital property and making their entire campuses smoke-free, a new survey reports.

... in the lab. Heparin is used around the globe and is among the most widely used drugs in American hospitals. The main source of this heparin is the intestines of foreign livestock and the risk of ...

... very strong that the overall cause of ED overcrowding is an "input-throughput-output" problem at American hospitals. Patients come to the ED for treatment, and under federal law the ED cannot turn ...

... Pediatrics. The study, conducted at 11 North American hospitals, involved telephone interviews of more than 200 ... Center, Dallas, Tx.; Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Mo.; Cincinnati Children' ...

... , say Tel Aviv University nurses, should be added to the routine. Although nurses in some American hospitals already practice toothbrushing on ventilated patients, these new results may convince ...

... for some time. Up to 25 percent of the 345,000 Americans hospitalized annually with hip fractures die within a year of their fracture. Typically, most patients die from cardiovascular ...