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Fifty more trucks produced a year. That's the result of regaining just six more days of productivity per injured employee, as a result of a musculoskeletal disability management program implemented in Warrenville, IL-based Navistar's truck division.
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Little changes can make a big difference. Although that message still is seen as counterintuitive by some health care experts, Trust for America's Health (TFAH) has concluded that an investment of $10 per person per year in proven community-based programs to increase physical activity, improve nutrition, and prevent smoking and other tobacco use could save the country more than $16 billion a year within five years, or a return of $5.60 for every $1 invested.
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Employees who work overtime are at increased risk of anxiety and depression, suggests a recent study.
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In this study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, investigators sought to determine whether pressure support ventilation (PSV) targeted at the same delivered tidal volume was more comfortable for patients than volume-control continuous mandatory ventilation (VC-CMV).
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Using the criteria of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to detect ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is labor intensive and subjective.
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This prospective cohort study was carried out in a 30-bed medical-surgical ICU in London to determine whether culturing throat and rectal swabs would identify more cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization than just swabbing at keratinized skin carriage sites such as the anterior nares, perineum, and axillae.
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Delayed ischemic insults are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH).
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A large body of literature has developed over the last decade consistently showing improved outcomes with increased use of critical care physicians in the management of patients in the ICU.
