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Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed at Mercy Medical Center. The functional capacity of the ED for 'treat and release' patients was impaired, post-anesthesia recovery room flow was adversely affected, and patient and staff satisfaction…
In the United States, there has been a growing health care divide between vulnerable populations defined in this report as people without health insurance, low-income families, and racial and ethnic minorities and the rest of society. Decades of research has demonstrated that vulnerable Americans…
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A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinical outcomes despite being extremely popular among hospital staff, who point to many individual cases where RRS have been beneficial. This ethnographic analysis of RRS at two British hospitals…
According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, in contrast to physicists, dosimetrists and radiation therapists who reported the most use of error and near-miss reporting systems. Nearly all respondents agreed that error reporting is their…
Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a publicly financed insurance program and pay hospitals, doctors and other providers a set fee to care for patients.
This report outlines promising provisions in the Affordable Care Act to achieve improved health and cost containment. It goes on to project the financial impact of those provisions.