AAN 2014: Comorbidities in Hospitalized Patients With MS
The Particulars: Little is known about the burden of hospitalizations for patients with multiple...
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Hospital Medicine
Quality of Care for Secondary HF
Current performance measures for heart failure (HF) from CMS target patients with a principal...
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Total Joint Arthroplasty: Addressing Unplanned Readmissions
Total joint arthroplasty has become a highly successful treatment option for sufferers of hip or...
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Tackling Low-Value Care With Humor
What happens when a hospital provides unnecessary care? Does your hospital sound like the one in...
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Triage Among Elderly Trauma Patients
Patients with the most severe injuries can be taken to trauma centers that offer immediate...
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Communication Etiquette in Medical Training
Patient-centered communication can impact several aspects of the patient-doctor relationship,...
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Making the Case for Early ID Specialist Involvement
In hospital settings, specialists are often consulted when managing patients with complex...
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An Innovation in Diagnosing Stroke
Vertigo and dizziness account for 4 million ED visits per year in the United States, about 5% of...
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Benefits Seen With Patient Activation
Reducing 30-day readmission rates has become an important mission to helping improve quality of...
Read MorePatient Falls Off OR Table: System Error?
An anesthetized patient fell to the floor headfirst from an operating room (OR) table during a laparoscopic appendectomy in Scotland. The table had been tilted into an extreme head-down position to facilitate the operation....
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Gender Bias in Knee Osteoarthritis
According to epidemiologic data, there appear to be biologically derived and behaviorally...
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Sexual Assault Training for ED Residents
According to recent estimates, more than 125,000 sexual assaults occur each year in the United...
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The Effect of Health Literacy on Asthma Control
Studies have shown that only about half of American adults have basic reading and numerical...
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Do Hospitals Profit From Surgical Errors?
It depends on what you read. A study of over 34,000 surgical procedures performed at a hospital...
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GI Cancer: Avoiding Potential Hospitalizations
Hospitalizations are a distressing experience for patients with cancer and their families,...
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The Evolution of Medicine
Source: BestMedicalDegrees.com Modern medicine has helped lead to a surge in average life...
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ACC.14: Aspirin Use in Non-Cardiac Surgery
The Particulars: Previous studies indicate that perioperative administration of aspirin varies...
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ACC.14: Balloon- Vs Self-Expandable TAVR
The Particulars: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) can utilize either...
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