Articles Tagged With: hospital
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Hospital Wards with Higher Rates of Antibiotic Prescribing Are Associated with Increased Risk for C. difficile Infection
A retrospective observational study found that among hospitalized patients, ward-level antibiotic prescribing was associated with a significantly increased risk for C. difficile infection beyond what would be expected with patient-level antibiotic use.
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Your facility does what procedures? Surgical hospitals expand limits
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Why would a hospital offer all outpatient care?
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Be aware of challenges with surgical hospitals
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Leapfrog Group jumps at chance to give consumers health care info
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Critical Care Plus: Special Beds: Boon to Patients or High-Profit Boondoggle?
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Full August 1, 2007 Issue in PDF
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NC nurses examining policy on assisting in executions
Physician groups' opposition to doctors participating in death penalty executions has put a moratorium on prisoner executions in North Carolina for nearly a year. -
Report documents importance of parents to children's health coverage
The George Washington University Medical Center School of Public Health and Health Services and First Focus released a report demonstrating that children benefit greatly when their parents have health care coverage. -
Full August 2007 Issue in PDF