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Over the past decade, several large-scale disasters have tested emergency response teams and health care providers. They've also tested the research community's ability to quickly, efficiently, and ethically dispatch investigators to do vital research that could help prevent and respond to future disasters.
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More meaningfully involving communities especially minorities and other ethnic groups in clinical research isn't just good ethics it could help address underrecruitment and failure of cancer clinical trials, says one of the authors of a new report on the subject.
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Change is never easy, but the toughest type of change is behavior or culture change within a hospice, says Susan Levitt, executive director of CNS Home Health and Hospice in Carol Stream, IL.
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When treatment options dwindle or are exhausted, terminally ill patients often opt for pain management and comfort over life-extending therapies.
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Investigators at the University of Pennsylvania in their study found that hospice services have restrictions that reduce usage by many patients who are most in need, particularly African-Americans, according to the American Cancer Society.
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Hospice nurses, aides, and therapists do a wonderful job caring for their patients, so it is natural that the patients and families want to thank them with gifts.
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The Joint Commission's latest sentinel event alert urges caution and foresight in dealing with the safety risks and preventable adverse events associated with technology-related errors, "as health information technology (HIT) and 'converging technologies' the interrelationship between medical devices and HIT are increasingly adopted by health care organizations."
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If you're thinking of purchasing health informatics technology, you have to do a lot of work on the front end before you seal the deal, says Grena Porto, RN, ARM, CPHRM, principal of QRS Healthcare Consulting Inc. in Hockessin, DE.
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According to a recent report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, pressure ulcers, or decubitus ulcers, are increasing.
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Discharge planners can prevent many problems that might occur during a patient's transition from the hospital to home care by focusing on communication with staff from the home care agency or other post-acute setting.
