Hospitals’ Cardiac Arrest Incidence and Survival Rates Go Hand in Hand

Measuring hospitals’ cardiac arrest survival rates appropriate first step in efforts to reduce cardiac arrest deaths.

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Having a Nighttime Critical Care Physician in the ICU Doesn’t Improve Patient Outcomes

Having a nighttime intensivist had no clear benefit on length of stay or mortality for critical care patients, not even patients admitted at night or those with the most critical illnesses at the time of admission, according to new findings from Penn Medicine researchers published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Commonly Used Catheters Double Risk of Blood Clots in ICU and Cancer Patients

U-M study finds peripherally inserted central catheters – an often preferred route for delivery of IV medications — increase risk of blood clots in sickest patients

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Progress in Correcting Drug Errors and Other Mistakes in Hospitals Too Slow to Assure Optimal Patient Safety

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Predominately Black Hospitals Provide Poor Trauma Care

Victims of trauma are at higher risk of either dying or suffering a major complication if they are treated at a hospital that serves a large population of black patients, finds a large new study in Health Services Research.

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Study Finds Broad Support for Rationing of Some Types of Cancer Care

The majority of cancer doctors, patients, and members of the general public support cutting health care costs by refusing to pay for drugs that don’t improve survival or quality of life, according to results of a new study that will be presented by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania during the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago in early June (Abstract #6518).

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UIC Information Specialists Ease Switch to New Healthcare Codes

University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have developed a website that walks healthcare providers through the challenging transition from the current International Classification of Diseases -- ICD-9 -- to the new ICD-10.

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Cancer Diagnosis Puts People at Greater Risk for Bankruptcy

People diagnosed with cancer are more than two-and-a-half times more likely to declare bankruptcy than those without cancer, according to a new study from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Researchers also found that younger cancer patients had two- to five-fold higher bankruptcy rates compared to older patients, and that overall bankruptcy filings increased as time passed following diagnosis.

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New Research Identifies Infection and Sepsis-Related Mortality Hotspots Across the U.S.

First Map of Its Kind Reveals Key Areas for Additional Research and Support Services

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