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Will that new supply of coffee mugs, calendars, note pads, and pens engraved with your hospices name and phone number make physicians or their nurses refer to you? Probably not, according to experts.
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CMS unveils cyber-help to assist providers; Nursing group offers
hospice grant; NHS spends £50M more on terminal cancer care; CMS begins effort to stop wheelchair benefit abuse; Agencies not prepared for HIPAA transaction rules
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Despite widespread debate and broad recommendations from professional organizations, careful risk and cost analyses do not support policies mandating the use of infant safety seats on commercial aircraft.
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The July 2003 edition of the Canadian Adverse Reaction Newsletter had received spontaneous reports of hypoglycemia (9) and hyperglycemia (7) associated with use of the fluoroquinolone, gatifloxacin (Tequin).
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A village in Tanzania has been found to have a decreased prevalence of P falciparum infections and an increased prevalence of wild type dihydrofolate reductase malaria parasites following the widespread use of permethrin-treated bed nets.
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Responding to the growing cultural diversity of Missouris hospital patients, the Missouri Hospital Association (MHA), based in Jefferson City, has launched a new web site....
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Control charts, quality tools that can help tighten the focus on process variations, increasingly are gaining acceptance among some health care quality professionals. In fact, a number of Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations requirements specifically mention the use of control charts.
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In response to emergency department (ED) overcrowding, Baptist Memorial Health Care in Memphis, TN, is launching an educational campaign focused on area EDs. A Tennessee Hospital Association study released last December found that ED visits in the state had increased 31% over three years, or twice the national rate.
