Physicians must keep in mind that, despite a lack of medical training, relatives increasingly are assigned complex tasks, such as maintaining catheters.
This article is the third in a three-part series that will help medical practices go through the proper process to determine if a new facility is needed and, if so, to create a new practice environment.
A study says those that do double their chances of readmission within two months. Understanding why this happens and what can be done about it is important.
This article describes how a predicted number of no-shows can be reliably obtained (within the limits of statistics) and used to inform decisions on padding schedules to mitigate against the adverse effects of no-shows.
The aims of this study were: (1) to investigate the effectiveness of organizational level interventions in minimizing the occurrence of NSIs among the nurses employed in a hospital ED; and (2) to quantify the impact of such interventions on the safet...