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NewsSame-day discharge improves patient flow, reduces costs
Hospitals looking to improve patient flow and cut back on costs should consider same-day discharge for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) patients, according to a study in today's issue of The Read more...
Heart issue hospitalizations drop among Medicare patients
Fewer Medicare patients are being hospitalized for heart conditions, according to research to be presented today at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Read more...
Patients spending less end-of-life time in hospitals
Medicare patients with severe chronic illnesses spent fewer days in the hospital while receiving more hospice care in 2007 than they did in 2003. However, those who were hospitalized were likely to Read more...
High malnutrition rates at Prime Healthcare hospitals raise doubts
Hospitals operated by Prime Healthcare Services have reported higher rates of a Third World nutritional disorder and malnutrition in its Medicare patients, California Watch reports. California Read more...
Spinal fusions, millions in Medtronic royalties look fishy
Compared with other hospitals in the U.S., Norton Hospital in Louisville, Ky., ranks No. 3 in total number of spinal fusion surgeries performed between 2004 and 2008, according to the Wall Street Read more...
Medicare costs must be reined in to tame deficit
If lawmakers want to reduce the $1.3 trillion federal budget deficit, they will have to go after Medicare, according to many news reports. So far, the chairmen of President Obama's debt-reduction Read more...
Officials skeptical of 'error-free' status at 87 hospitals
State officials in California suspect that dozens of hospitals have been fudging reports after not reporting any significant medical errors in the last three years, the Los Angeles Times reports. Read more...
Hospital must slash budget by $3 million
The biggest challenge for Tucson Medical Center is to cut the costs of care, President and CEO Judy Rich told Kaiser Health News. One big reason for the belt-tightening will be the 1.3 percent Read more...
Late-stage cancer care varies widely by hospital, region
How late-stage cancer patients are treated varies widely by region and hospital, according to a new Dartmouth Atlas Project report. For the study, researchers analyzed records for 236,000 Medicare Read more...
More drugs don't yield healthier patients
Higher levels of drug spending does not always deliver better quality of care for Medicare patients, concludes a new study published in the Nov. 3 online edition of the New England Journal of Read more...
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