March 9, 2010

Lack of Space Sees Patients in Kitchen: Survey

A new survey published in a nursing magazine has revealed a desperate need for extra hospital beds with a number of hospitals now treating new patients in kitchens and mop cupboards.

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March 3, 2010

New Way to Predict Early Death or Readmission to Hospital

A new tool can help physicians predict the likelihood of death or readmission to hospital for patients within 30 days of discharge from hospital, according

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February 27, 2010

Horrifying Report of Patients Neglect at a British Hospital

Patients at a British hospital were left to lie in filthy, soiled bedding, without food or water and little or no basic nursing care, a report found.

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February 25, 2010

Survey Reveals Understaffing Epidemic in UK Hospitals

Four in ten junior doctors are now working on understaffed rotas as UK hospitals struggle to cope with the introduction of the European Working Time Directive

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ICU Outcomes Improved by Team-Based Approach

Hospital intensive care units (ICUs) nationwide are struggling to staff units with critical care teams led by intensivists, even though the presence of

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Study Says Lower-Cost Hospital Care Is Not Always Lower in Quality

A report in the February 22 issue of IArchives of Internal Medicine/I, one of the JAMA/Archives journals says that the costs that hospitals incur

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February 5, 2010

Nurses Find Workplace Violence Part of Their Job, Finds Study

A study has shown that many nurses consider violence to be a part of the job.

The study showed that three-quarters of nurses who provide

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February 3, 2010

Top-Rated Hospitals Not Always the Best

Popular hospital rating systems can help identify high-quality hospitals for cardiovascular operations, but patients can achieve similar outcomes by seeking

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Call For Risk Calculators In Hospitals

US experts are suggesting that more and more hospitals go for risk calculators. At the moment only 250 hospitals are equipped with such calculators derived

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Correction More Effective by Ponseti Method Than Surgery

Ponseti method has been found to be more effective in treating clubfoot than surgical treatment, say researchers.

Clubfoot is a complex deformity

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