Consider that as many as 1 million people fall in US hospitals every year, resulting in injuries to more than one-third of those patients. On average, each of these injuries adds 6.3 days to the hospital stay and cost approximately $14,056. Preventing and managing falls and related injuries...
John Reynolds-WrightDepartment of GUM/HIV, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, UKSarah TrotmanDepartment of GUM/HIV, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, UKBMJ Publishing Group LtdSexually Transmitted Infections...
“Children are an especially vulnerable population in two senses: They are often at greater hazard, and their vulnerability virtually always provokes greater outrage. Largely because of the second (factor), ignoring the first is seen as a very serious ethical infraction....
This is a common practice in hospitals, lower income communities and the like. However, in certain patient financial circumstances there may exist a responsible payment party, which is not health insurance, yet constitutes a payment source for the provision of paying the health provider's bills. ...
The National Programme for IT in the NHS – NPfIT – failed in part because it was rushed, the implications of “ruthless standardisation” were not fully understood at the outset and there was a lack of proper engagement with potential end-users in hospitals and GP practices. All these same...
In some situations, the rounding frequencies may vary based on the medical condition of the patient, the wing or section of the hospital, and/or other factors. Hospitals also typically expect nurses and/or other caregivers to help reduce the risk of patients falling. In many hospitals, ...
The cost of one-year bank loans will fall from 6.66% to 5.58%, while the benchmark one-year deposit rate falls from 3.60% to 2.52%, the People's 06 Jan 2009 I Business Tianjin Biz Briefs Bank of China said. The cut in interest rates took effect on 27 November. The lending rate ...
Dr. Claudio Butticè, Pharm.D., is a former Pharmacy Director who worked for several large public hospitals in Southern Italy, as well as for the humanitarian NGO Emergency. He is now an accomplished book author who has written on topics such as medicine, technology, world poverty, human ri...
Device inventory can be managed in numerous ways according to the invention. For example, the database information is used to determine the quantities of selected types of devices that are stored in selected locations. A user is notified if the quantity of a selected type of device falls below...
In Norway, healthcare is fundamentally a public service. It has two parts: (1) primary care, consisting of GPs and municipality care; and (2) specialized care, consisting of hospitals providing diagnosis-specific services. Residents in Norway are assigned to GPs, who are the gatekeepers to spe...