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Capacity limits and bed shortages lead to difficult decisions for hospital administrators, including whether to cancel surgeries, build new facilities, add staff, or continue to divert patients to other hospitals.
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The proportion of hospitals offering complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) services increased by 0.8 percentage points in 2002, according to the 2003-2004 edition of the AHA Guide. About 16.5% of the 4,756 hospitals that answered the services questionnaire in the 2002 AHA Annual Survey of Hospitals said they provide CAM, up from 15.7% of 4,773 respondents in 2001.
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Vast strides are being made in data collection methodology, and access to the same resources will help increase the commonality among benchmarking facilities. Nevertheless, benchmarking professionals argue, the practice of benchmarking is as much art as it is science, and interpreting data is as important as collecting them.
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Medical injuries during hospitalization resulted in longer hospital stays, higher costs, and a higher number of deaths in 2000, according to a study from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in Rockville, MD. The study, Excess Length of Stay, Charges, and Mortality Attributable to Medical Injuries During Hospitalization, was published in the Oct. 8, 2003, Journal of the American Medical Association.
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The RWJ University Hospital Foundation Inc. has improved the efficiency of its fundraising operations by switching to new software that allows more effective management of its donor database.
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IRBs and research institutions may have some disagreement and confusion over when its appropriate to send a pediatric research proposal to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for a 407 review.
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As awareness of IRBs and human subjects research protection increases among the public and staff at institutions, IRB members sometimes are asked to consider new gray areas regarding studies that typically havent made it to the IRBs radar screen.
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IRBs and the research community soon may have new guidance in defining and clarifying some of the gray areas in regulations of human subject protection.
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For more than two centuries, the small communities that make up the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, on the countrys most northeastern coast, were largely isolated from the rest of the world.
