... business coalition that provides information regarding hospital safety and quality to its members (large companies ... 2006 Safe Practices Survey and risk of in-hospital death. A Safe Practices Score (SPS ...
... parties are calling on the provincial government to reveal the total hospital death toll from the infection called C. difficile, Health Minister George Smitherman said Monday he doesn ...
... procedures, poor communications regarding prognosis and treatment preferences, and in-hospital deaths that are inconsistent with stated preferences.
Researchers measured hospital utilization during ...
... 2003. They analyzed all-cause, risk-adjusted in-hospital deaths after CABG surgery to determine the proportion ... t just publish post-operative death rates if we want to continue to improve the quality ...
(AP) -- Outside the Zekai Tahir Burak maternity hospital stands a bronze statue of a mother nursing a baby with an inscription from the Prophet Mohammed: "Paradise lies at the feet of the mother."
... local healthcare providers.
Full reports on death rate trends in each of the 50 states ... study. And, for the first time, HealthGrades has released hospital death rates for the nation's 15 largest ...
... first month, the risk of sudden cardiac death drops significantly - but rises again if a person ... medical exam. Investigators were able to identify out-of-hospital deaths whose primary cause was listed ...
... strategies to reduce preventable in-hospital deaths. In response, hundreds of hospitals around the country have invested ... percent vs. 76.1 percent). Hospital-wide mortality rates did not meaningfully ...
Men and women have about the same in-hospital death rate for heart attack — but women are twice as likely ... myocardial infarction (STEMI) in a recent study, the death rate was 10.2 for women compared ...
Canadian hospitals are improving the chances that patients will survive, new statistics suggest.
... rates of survival did not improve from 1992 to 2005. During that period, the proportion of hospital deaths preceded by CPR rose, and the proportion of patients who were successfully resuscitated and ...
... data on 3,195,672 discharges in 2,755,370 patients.
The researchers found that the all-cause and in-hospital death rates decreased over the study period. "The 30-day mortality rate decreased from ...
... researchers followed both sets of patients up for a week, and examined the in-hospital death rate in each group with 2,182 deaths in patients admitted on the last Wednesday in July and ...
... median (midpoint) duration of intubation, length of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) or in the hospital, death rates or frequency and severity of adverse events.
"In conclusion, the results of ...
... concluded that, while men and women have a similar in-hospital death rate following acute myocardial ... paper, Professor Eva Swahn (University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden), who has conducted gender ...
