Articles Tagged With: mortality
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Running and Health
In a review and meta-analysis of the effects of running and longevity, researchers concluded that running provides specific and significant health benefits and proposed a threshold above which more running provides diminishing returns.
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Neuroimaging Before Lumbar Puncture?
The investigators retrospectively evaluated ESCMIID, IDSA, and Swedish guidelines for neuroimaging in 815 adults with acute bacterial meningitis. Swedish guidelines omit altered mental status and immunosuppression as indications for imaging prior to lumbar puncture. Adherence to Swedish guidelines resulted in decreased mortality and more favorable outcomes.
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Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines Bundle: Studying How Improved Compliance Might Affect Outcomes
Improved compliance with the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines bundle was associated with a non-statistically significant decrease in the in-hospital mortality of severe sepsis patients.
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Do Facebook Friends Count — for Health and Longevity?
An observational examination of California Facebook users suggested this population has a lower mortality rate than non-Facebook users; the lowest mortality risk is for Facebook users who combine a moderate degree of online social interaction with high offline social activity.
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EHRs May Not Affect Patient Safety Negatively
Recent research suggests concerns over how electronic health records may affect patient safety may be overblown.
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Nature Nurturing Health
A national prospective cohort study of nurses found that higher levels of green vegetation were associated with decreased mortality.
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Screening for Ovarian Cancer: Helpful or Harmful?
Ovarian cancer has the highest mortality of any of the gynecologic cancers. Due to the poor prognosis associated with this disease, researchers have been searching for 50 years for an early detection tool.
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Sepsis Resuscitation and Mortality
The use of balanced salt solutions rather than isotonic saline or colloids may improve in-hospital mortality in patients admitted with septic shock.
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Hospital’s sepsis QI program lead to drop in mortality rate
There are many good reasons for a quality manager to focus on sepsis data collection and quality improvement, but the most important one is that patients — even those who were recently in optimal health — can die from sepsis if it’s not diagnosed early.
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Reducing Daily Chest Radiographs in the ICU
Quality improvement protocols can reduce the number of chest radiographs in the ICU without compromising care.