HOSPITAL REPORT
The premier resource for hospital professionals from Relias Media, the trusted source for healthcare information and continuing education.
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Phase I Clinical Trial Injuries Come During Greater Push for Trial Data Transparency
The demand for details amid a Phase I clinical trial accident comes during a greater push for more clinical trial transparency. But when does it become too much information?
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Hospitals Bring Comfort, Companionship, and Even a Wedding to the Terminally Ill
To comfort a terminally ill patient, one hospital brought his daughter’s wedding to him.Read More -
Hot Guarantee: Patients Can Get their Money Back for Hospital Care
The idea of giving people what they want, or making it right if you don't, is behind a new money-back guarantee at Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania.
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Medicare 2016 Penalties See More Hospitals Dinged than in 2015
The 2016 Medicare reimbursement penalty data has many hospitals grumbling.
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Give Me Some Space … To Help Teens with Mental Health Challenges
Gundersen Health System has a collaboration that addresses teens' mental health issues before they reach suicidal behavior.
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Ex-War Buddies Reunited through Kidney Donation
When Bill Warner needed a kidney transplant, his Vietnam War comrade was there for payback.Read More -
Study Finds that Low-income Cancer Patients May Find Clinical Trials Cost-prohibitive
A recent study in JAMA Oncology determined that low-income cancer patients face barriers to clinical trials that higher-income patients may find more marginal.
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Shhhhh! Patients Are Trying to Sleep – Is your Staff Keeping Them Awake?
Want to have happier and healthier patients, plus healthier staff? Cut down on the noise.Read More -
Physician-Hospital Mergers Mean Higher Outpatient Costs
A new study unearths a link between physician-hospital integration and increase in cost of outpatient services.
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Battle for Better Literacy Can Become a War on Words
I used to be at war with my publications. We used to shrink the size of the text in order to get everything in. I would raise a battle cry: “Our readers can’t read text that small!” How did I know? Because I’m one of those (over-50) readers. There’s a hospital that recognizes the difficulty that us older ones have reading small type.Read More