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Weight Loss in Type 2 Diabetes; Dalteparin and Chronic Foot Ulcers in Diabetics with PAD; Pioglitazone and LDL in Nondiabetic Hypertensives; Parathyroid Hormone and Alendronate Alone or in Combination in Postmenopausal Osteoporosis; Evaluation of D-Dimer in the Diagnosis of Suspected Deep-Vein Thrombosis; Exercise Testing to Predict Cardiovascular and All-Cause Death in Women
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Thomson American Health Consultants offers the upcoming audio conference: The Resurgence of SARS: Why your hospital may not be as prepared as you think, on Dec. 9, from 2:30-3:30 EST.
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EMTALA: The Essential Guide to Compliance from Thomson American Health Consultants, publisher of Emergency Medicine Reports, explains how the changes to EMTALA will affect emergency departments and off-campus clinics.
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The ED physician and trauma surgeon must have evidence-based
information on indications for emergency department thoracotomy that
can be determined rapidly, easily accessible equipment, and the ability
to recognize situations in which EDT clearly is not in the patients
best interest.
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Reducing patient length of stay (LOS) from nearly seven days to the regional average of 5.5 days usually takes two years, according to the Health Care Advisory Board in Washington, DC, a nationally recognized organization that provides best practices research and analysis to the health care industry.
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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.
