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Parkland behind schedule on two patient-safety requirements
By Dallas Morning News | May 23, 2012
Parkland Memorial Hospital is behind schedule on two critical government safety mandates—ensuring enough psychiatrists are on duty and developing ways to track the supervision of doctors-in-training.
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Outcomes research group announces funding opportunities
By Paul Barr | May 23, 2012
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Denver, announced its long-awaited first four primary research fund opportunities with a
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Hospice being marketed as a cost-cutter for hospitals
By USA Today | May 22, 2012
Hospice marketers are looking to exploit a provision in the healthcare law by persuading hospitals to send Medicare patients into end-of-life hospice care instead of readmitting them to the hospital.
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U.S. task force: End routine prostate cancer screening
By Reuters | May 22, 2012
A task force advising the U.S. government on Monday recommended against routine use of the prostate-cancer screening test called PSA, or prostate specific antigen, for lack of a discernible health benefit.
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Not all ICUs need a specialist at night: study
By Reuters via Chicago Tribune | May 22, 2012
Among hospital intensive-care units with a daytime physician specially trained in critical care, adding a specialist to cover the night shift does not improve patients' survival, according to a new study.
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Surgery residents often fighting fatigue: study
By Andis Robeznieks | May 22, 2012
Fatigue among medical residents is "prevalent, pervasive and variable," and accounts for increased risk of medical error, according to a report in the American Medical Association's Archives of Surgery journal.
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Hospitals prepare for a plus-size future
By Houston Chronicle | May 21, 2012
Stretchers that can transport 500-pound patients. Wheelchairs designed for people who weigh 700 pounds. Toilets made to support half a ton. Hospitals and clinics are preparing for a future in which almost half of the population will be obese.
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Doctors seek new approach for jailed addicts
By New York Times | May 21, 2012
A group of prominent addiction doctors has mounted a quiet legal campaign on behalf of Cameron Douglas, the troubled son of the actor Michael Douglas, in hopes of finding a sympathetic ear for their view that drug addiction is best handled with more treatment, not more prison time.
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Laying the groundwork for quality | Hospital engagement networks—call them HENs—tasked with ambitious goals for reducing readmissions and hospital-acquired conditions
By Maureen McKinney | May 19, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
On the morning of March 27, a group of 46 quality improvement professionals gathered in a brightly lit conference room on the ground floor of a large hotel near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
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Podcast: Washington State Hospital Association's Carol Wagner on priorities for HENs (6:41)
By Modern Healthcare | May 19, 2012
In an exclusive interview, Carol Wagner, senior vice president for patient safety at the Washington State Hospital Association, talks with Modern Healthcare reporter Maureen McKinney. Wagner discusses her association's top priorities under the HEN program as well as goals under the Partnership for...
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Video Feature: Modern Healthcare's Advance Notice for the week of May 21, 2012 (1:28)
By Modern Healthcare | May 19, 2012
Welcome to Advance Notice, Modern Healthcare's preview of news for the week ahead.
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Primary-care docs less likely to spot cancer treatment side effects: study
By ABC News | May 17, 2012
According to a study presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago, primary-care doctors are about half as successful as cancer specialists in identifying the side effects that occur after cancer treatment.
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U.S. investigation of Medtronic ends
By Reuters via New York Times | May 17, 2012
Medtronic said that the Justice Department and the United States attorney’s office in Massachusetts had closed their investigation related to the omission of safety issues of its orthopedic product Infuse and its off-label use.
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Medical boards' actions against docs up 6.8% in 2011
By Andis Robeznieks | May 17, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Driven in part by the Florida Board of Medicine, state medical boards' disciplinary actions against physicians increased 6.8% in 2011, according to the Federation of State Medical Boards Summary of 2011 Board Actions (PDF).
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Genetic testing doesn't increase healthcare use: study
By Paul Barr | May 17, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Genetic testing does not drive increased use of health services, according to the results of a study published online by the journal Genetics in Medicine.
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Time to get on board with ICD-10
By Lynne Thomas Gordon | May 16, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
In 1979, the average cost of gasoline was 86 cents per gallon; the federal funds rate was as high as 13.78%; and people associated an apple with a piece of fruit.
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Latinos lagging in health professions: study
By Ashok Selvam | May 16, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Latinos earned 10% of the degrees and certificates awarded in 2009-10 for students enrolled in healthcare-related professions, according to a study.
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Nurse practitioners say Texas should cut unneeded limits on their Rx powers
By Dallas Morning News | May 15, 2012
Texas' nearly 7,000 nurse practitioners and about 4,500 of their nursing colleagues with advanced training say the state needs to unshackle their talents by updating a 23-year-old law that imposes "unnecessary restrictions" on their treating of patients.
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Mo. association releases report on lessons of Joplin tornado
By Paul Barr | May 15, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Missouri Hospital Association released a report in response to the Joplin, Mo., tornado and other events that highlights areas the states' hospitals could do better to be ready for a disaster.
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Unintended consequence for dialysis patients as rule changes
By New York Times | May 11, 2012
A shift last year by the federal government in how it pays for drugs to treat dialysis patients may have had an unintended and potentially dire consequence, according to new research.
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Video News Short: The Joint Commission's Dr. Mark Chassin on HHS' $1 billion Partnership for Patients program (4:30)
By Modern Healthcare | May 02, 2011
Dr. Mark Chassin, president of the Joint Commission, discusses the federal government's new patient safety initiative, the $1 billion Partnership for Patients program, and how that program dovetails with the work of his organization, the largest private-sector healthcare accreditation body.
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Video News Short: Lakeland (Fla.) Surgical & Diagnostic Center's David Daniel on infection control
January 24, 2011
David Daniel, CEO of Lakeland (Fla.) Surgical & Diagnostic Center, won the second annual Healthcare Administrator Award from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. Lakeland Surgical reduced its infections to just two, even as its number of procedures grew by more...
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Video News Short: University of Maryland Medical Center's Jeffrey Rivest on patient safety
December 07, 2010
Jeffrey Rivest, president and CEO of the University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, discusses how his hospital has made it onto the Leapfrog Group's top hospitals list in each of the five years that the group has ranked hospitals. The University of Maryland Medical Center and Virginia Mason...
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Video News Short: Virginia Mason Health System's Gary Kaplan on patient safety
December 07, 2010
Gary Kaplan, chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Health System, Seattle, discusses how his hospital has made it onto the Leapfrog Group's top hospitals list in each of the five years that the group has ranked hospitals. Virginia Mason Health System and the University of Maryland Medical Center,...
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Webcast: Lessons from the Top: See how hospitals reached the pinnacle of clinical and financial performance | Now available On-Demand
July 16, 2010
Mortality, length of stay and patient safety. Those are among key clinical measures used in the annual 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks study conducted by Thomson Reuters to recognize high-performance hospitals. But that's only part of the picture. The study also includes financial markers...
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Shift in focus is needed
May 04, 2011 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
I'm responding to your article about the Health Affairs paper that said that one-third of all hospitalized patients at three tertiary hospitals suffered adverse events.
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Study mostly a boost for commission
July 01, 2010 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Joint Commission is on a confused track. Mark Chassin's study of his organization's quality process measures was interesting to those of us who find “process” measures typically indirect, microfocused and therefore misguided as an approach to improving quality.
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