Articles Tagged With: mortality
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Spice is Nice
The habitual consumption of spicy foods is associated with reduced mortality independent of other risk factors for death.
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Special Feature: Surrogate Outcome Measures in Critical Care: It’s the Mortality, Stupid!
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Critical Care Plus: Focus on Dying Children’s Quality of Life, Study Says
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Mortality, hospitalization cut for kidney patients
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Discharge Time, Discharge TISS Scores, and Discharge Facility and Post-ICU Discharge Hospital Mortality
Intensive care is part of a continuum of progressive patient care, and a significant number of research groups are now focusing their attention on ways to improve the organization of the ICU and its place in the continuum of care. An important aspect of this process is the evaluation of ICU discharge policies and their consequences. -
Nursing shortage can affect patient survival
The continuing shortage of nurses in the United States has a direct effect on patients survival after surgery, according to a new study. -
Heart Rate Predicts Elderly Fractures and Mortality
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Telehealth helps hospital cut readmissions by 75%
Fuqua Heart Center of Atlanta (GA) at Piedmont Hospital has used telehealth technology to significantly reduce the rate of hospital readmissions for heart failure patients. -
NPs bridge gap between discharge and first visit
Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series that describe how two different agencies use nurse practitioners in their program. -
What's New in Shoulder Dislocation Management?
Shoulder dislocations account for approximately 50% of all dislocations encountered by health care providers. Most dislocations (90-98%) are anterior in nature and result from trauma sustained with the affected extremity abducted and externally rotated.