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Hospitalists collaborating with clinical pharmacists at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center in East Patchogue, NY, were able to shorten length of stay, lower medication costs, and improve clinical outcomes.
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Noting that while pay-for-performance (P4P) programs have grown in popularity in recent years, few are guided by well-articulated goals and principles, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has issued its own Principles for the Construct of Pay-for-Performance Programs.
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A study published in the Dec. 21, 2004, Annals of Internal Medicine showed that patients enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs health system (VHA) were more likely than a national sample of similar patients in the general population to receive preventive care and chronic care recommended by established national guidelines.
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A series of MediKiosks, designed by Maitland, FL-based Galvanon Inc., have cut patient check-in time at the Baylor Sammons Breast Imaging Center in Dallas from seven or eight minutes down to three, while winning broad approval from patients.
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A futuristic training center where hospital staff and medical students alike can treat realistic mannequins for a wide range of conditions is the first step toward what its proponents hope will be a regional center serving patient safety professionals from many different facilities.
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Until St. Louiss SSM Healthcare broke the barrier in 2002, no health care system had won the coveted Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Now there are four.
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Recent cases from Thailand indicate that children can be born infected by dengue virus. Fever and thrombocytopenia are noted in the first week of life, and death, though unusual, has been reported.
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As of November 2004, 10 countries are endemic for polio. Persistent transmission in Nigeria has led to the re-establishment of polio in 4 additional countries: Sudan, Chad, Burkina Faso, and Côtes dIvoire. In Asia, the number of cases has decreased, and may reach zero transmission by early 2005.
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The RTS,S/AS02A vaccine, a pre-erythrocytic vaccine based upon the Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozote surface antigen was recently proven to be safe, well tolerated, and immunogenic in this phase IIb proof-of-concept efficacy study done in Mozambican children.
