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A team approach to quality measures has resulted in a significant drop in ventilator-associated pneumonia for patients in the intensive care unit at Columbus Regional Hospital (IN) and helped the hospital earn the 2007 American Hospital Association-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize.
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It's common for case managers to say, "Oh, I wish I were a consultant." Yet, case managers already have jobs in which they do much of what a consultant does.
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A "near-miss" in which a nurse at a Pennsylvania hospital incorrectly placed a "do not resuscitate" (DNR) wristband on a patient has prompted an Ohio initiative aimed at implementing statewide standardization of colored wristbands.
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Withdrawal of statin therapy in acute ischemic stroke may lead to increases in death and disability.
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The FDA has approved the second of two new antiretroviral agents from new drug classes. Raltegravir is the first integrase strand transfer inhibitor and follows closely on the approval of maraviroc, a CCR5 co-receptor antagonist.
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The 12-lead ECG and lead II rhythm strip seen in the Figure was obtained from an unfortunate middle-aged dialysis patient with a dilated cardiomyopathy. He had missed his last dialysis treatment.
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Overweight employees who are paid to lose weight will do so in proportion to how much and how soon they are paid.
