Articles Tagged With: high
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Health System’s Program Reduces Serious Safety Events Everywhere
High reliability training can lead surgery centers and other healthcare organizations to better safety outcomes.
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Many People Put Off Medical Care Because They Cannot Pay High Deductibles
Patients often find out about a high deductible not from their insurer or employer, but from a registrar — and many of these high-dollar accounts go unpaid. Now, multiple recent studies show that people are avoiding care because they cannot pay their high deductibles.
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High Altitude Medicine: A Review for the Practicing Emergency Physician
The recognition and treatment of high altitude illness is within the core content of emergency medicine practice. High altitude illness represents a spectrum of clinical entities, ranging from common and benign acute mountain sickness to life-threatening high altitude pulmonary edema and rare but potentially lethal high altitude cerebral edema.
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High Reliability Organizations Aim High, Strive for Zero
Hospitals and health systems are always striving to improve quality and become more reliable providers of healthcare, but some are setting even higher goals by striving to become high reliability organizations. With the HRO concept, these hospitals are aiming not to just improve and reduce errors, but to completely eliminate them.