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ICU mortality rates biased
Although in-hospital mortality rates measure quality in intensive care units, new research finds the performance metric may unfairly penalizing large, academic hospitals due to "discharge bias."
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
Air Force medevac planes deliver mobile health on a grand scale
Call it mobile health on a grand scale. Healthcare experts generally recommend against patient transfers whenever possible, but not the U.S. military when treating trauma cases in combat zones.
RSNA: iPad helps untether radiologists from reading room
Mobility is coming to radiology, and the iPad has a lot to do with that. At this week's Radiological Society of North America annual conference in Chicago, several teams of researchers are presenting
