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MRSA pre-screening cuts transmissions, saves money
Screening high-risk hospital admissions for Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) reduced in-hospital MRSA transmissions, saving Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston more than $100,000 a year,...
Hospitals, not patients, responsible for ICU admission variations
It's not the patients but the hospitals that cause wide variations in intensive care unit admissions. According to new research released yesterday from the Health Services Research, the difference in
Study: EHRs improve hospital nursing care
Electronic health records do more than improve care rendered by physicians. They also improve care provided by nurses. That's the scoop in a study of more than 16,000 nurses published in the Journal
Hopkins, Lockheed partner to build safer ICUs
Safety issues in healthcare often are compared unfavorably to the solutions that the airline industry has adopted to minimize the chance of a plane crash. Now, a unit of Johns Hopkins University is
Hospital infection care differs for children, adults
The differences between adult and pediatric patients often are overlooked in treatment and prevention efforts related to healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), say two Cleveland Clinic Children's
Telehealth prevents ICU deaths, research shows
Using telehealth services to monitor ICU patients can reduce mortality rates by 20%, and decrease length of stay by nearly 1.3 days, a group of Veterans Affairs researchers concluded. They evaluated
Better sepsis screening needed in ICUs
Hospitals are not adequately screening for sepsis in the ICU. Sepsis, or surgical infection, kills 10 times more than heart attack and blood clots during surgery, according to new research published
