Articles Tagged “care”
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Comprehensive asthma care keeps kids out from the hospital
A comprehensive, patient-centered approach to asthma care that consists of education, referrals to specialists and home visits not only increases patients’ health but also has tremendous potential to reduce health care costs, according to research…
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Using death rates to judge hospital performance ‘a bad idea’
Mortality rates are a poor measure of the quality of hospital care and should not be a trigger for public inquiries such as the investigation at the Mid Staffordshire hospital, argue experts in a paper…
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Yale-developed test can help predict and diagnose preeclampsia
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a simple urine test to rapidly predict and diagnose preeclampsia, a common, but serious hypertensive complication of pregnancy. Dubbed the “Congo Red Dot Test” by the research…
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Young Adults Visit Doctors Least At An Age When Risky Behavior Peaks
When adolescents graduate to young adulthood, their preventive care tends to fall by the wayside. A recent study has found that young adults are much less likely to use ambulatory or preventive care, even though…
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Triage Study Challenges Notions Of Emergency Medical Response To Disaster
In the face of terrorism and catastrophic natural disasters, modern regional trauma systems that improve survival for critically injured patients are more vital than ever. Yet many fundamental assumptions underlying these systems—such as the notion…
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Physical Therapy In ICU Can Reduce Hospital Stays
The results of the first study to show the effectiveness of early physical therapy in a medical intensive care unit (ICU) are being presented October 23 by a researcher from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical…