More than 50,000 lives could be save if all hospitals have an avoidable death rate equivalent to “A” grade hospitals, according to an update report prepare for The Leapfrog Institute. A teaching hospital combines assistance to people with teaching to medical students and nurses. The medical facility smaller than a hospital is generally a clinic.…
The strikers, members of the United Auto Workers, struck May 6 after more than eight months of futile negotiations. They are opposing conditions of brutal overwork, the further undermining of their inadequate health benefits and management’s derisory offer of a one percent wage increase. The UAW is anxious to contain the strike at Mercy Health…
The study find that comfort in the most unexpected way. As her husband lay dying in his hospital bed, the sound of a harp wafted in. Intrigued; Woolf went into the hallway to chat briefly with the harpist; Una O’Donovan. Because “I told her that her being there felt like a gift; therefore ” Woolf…
Healthcare is one of several factors that affect longevity in the United States, a new study reaffirms. Behavioral and social factors have much more influence. Robert Kaplan, PhD, and Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH, from Stanford University School of Medicine’s Clinical Excellence Research Center in California, test how much healthcare affects the risk for premature death…
People care for aging parents, one solution is a safe, responsible nursing home. But an increasingly common means of ensuring that safety security cameras install by relatives may do more harm than good, says Clara Berridge, an assistant professor of social work at the University of Washington. With reports of crimes against nursing home residents…
How can we scale up education at a time of doctor shortages and how to widen opportunities for equity and a medical profession that reflects our society. These are some of the questions Professor Helen Cameron will seek to address in her inaugural lecture at Aston University on Tuesday 21 May. Physician supply refers to…
The diffusion of a culture of openness in hospitals is associate with lower hospital mortality, according to a study conducted among 137 acute trusts in England by Veronica Toffolutti (Bocconi University and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) and David Stuckler (Bocconi University) published in Health Affairs. The desire for better health statistics is not…
In India, the concept of healthcare means expenditure; fraudulent misconduct of hospitals and orthodox mindsets that prevent the social; and physical well-being of our country as a whole. Governmental subsidy measures are inadequate and privately funded organisations leach upon the vulnerabilities of our brethren among. In times of bustling economic disparities and medical atrocities that…
The diffusion of a culture of openness in hospitals is associate with lower hospital mortality, according to a study conduct among 137 acute trusts in England by Veronica Toffolutti (Bocconi University and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) and David Stuckler (Bocconi University) published in Health Affairs. The number of deaths Mortality rate, or death…
Most internal medicine physicians recognize that the costs of care may be a burden to patients and are willing to discuss options with them; but few raise the issue, results of a new survey show. Of 621 physicians responding to an email questionnaire; so 89% said they knew of at least one patient who did…
Federal officials are proposing new regulations that for the first time could allow patients to compare prices charged by various hospitals and other health care providers using data sent to their smartphones. Donald Rucker, who coordinates health information technology policy for the Department of Health and Human Services, said they expects that the rules, first…
In an effort to identify which health care providers may be over prescribing opioids and potentially fueling the opioid epidemic, Johns Hopkins researchers looked at the different type of providers at the front lines of caring for patients—general practitioners. The educational curriculum for nurses is designed to prepare them to work in any health-care setting.…