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Synopsis: Of 217 consecutive Hodgkins disease patients seen at M.D. Anderson with Stage I or II disease who received chemo- and radiation therapy, 12 had elevated b2M (> 2.5 mg/L). There was a trend for reduced relapse-free survival for those with elevated levels, and a significant correlation with reduced overall survival. Thus, an inexpensive and widely available laboratory measure might provide useful prognostic information in patients with Hodgkins disease.
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Synopsis: The hazard ratio for death from breast cancer for patients with high total cyclin E levels as compared with those with low total cyclin E levels was 13.3 to about 8 times as high as the hazard ratios associated with other independent clinical and pathological risk factors, including axillary node status.
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Synopsis: Involvement of a gynecologic oncologist at the time of primary surgery for endometrial cancer was associated with comparable outcomes in both the university and community hospital setting.
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Synopsis: The Nurses Health Study reports an increased incidence of breast cancer with daily alcohol consumption, hormone therapy, and an additive effect with greater drinking.
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The efforts by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to improve patient safety are paying huge dividends for the hundreds of hospitals participating in its system of adverse-event reporting and analysis, suggesting that other health care providers could benefit from adopting the same techniques.
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These are the categories of triage questions used by the Veterans Affairs National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS) to help health care providers determine what really led to an adverse event or close call.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) patient safety system can be mined for strategies that could work well in your own organization, but another successful program from the VA could be directly available to all hospitals within a year.
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Question: I understand that the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations requires that crash carts be locked when not in use during an emergency, but how must they be locked?
