Tag: Hospitals
ICU Clinicians Cautiously Support Electronic Portals
Focus groups assess perspectives of ICU clinicians on current state of communication
Mortality Not Up at Nurse-Practitioner-Staffed ICU
No increase in ICU mortality, in-hospital mortality compared with resident-staffed ICU admissions
Outcomes Up for Seniors With Hip Fx in Large Teaching Hospitals
Mortality rates higher in smaller community hospitals, Canadian study finds
Medicaid Revenue Up in States With Medicaid Expansion
Increased Medicaid revenue, improved profit margins for hospitals in 19 states with expansion
CDI Risk Up When Prior Occupant of Hospital Bed Got Antibiotics
Researchers find an association with elevated risk of Clostridium difficile infection
Hospitalizations in Pregnancy, Delivery Stable for HIV-Infected
No increase in hospitalizations from 2004 to 2011
Hospital Choice Key in Post-Myocardial Infarction Survival
Patients treated at hospitals with better track records gained additional year of life
Readmission Reduction Program Successful in Safety-Net Hospitals
Medicare's HRRP reduced readmissions for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia in first three years
Greater Drop in Payments at BPCI Hospitals for Joint Replacement
Findings for lower extremity joint replacement at Bundled Payments for Care Improvement hospitals
Hospitals Increasingly Employing Doctors, Effects on Care Uncertain
Switch to employment model not linked to improvement in any of four composite quality metrics
