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By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, August 23, 2010
These drugs, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration before 1962 have subsequently been found to be less than effective. A faulty computer database should have rejected payment, an Office of Inspector General report says.
By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, August 23, 2010
The survival of people who suffer major injuries often depends on where they are when they're hurt, due to a growing shortage of trauma surgeons and other factors, study suggests.
By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, August 23, 2010
Enrollees in health reimbursement arrangements have been found in both public and private plans to spend less on healthcare annually than those enrolled in other types of health plans, according to the Government Accountability Office.
By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, August 23, 2010
Magnet hospitals are associated with atrributed that attract nurses: high autonomy, decentralized organizational structure, and supportive management. But Magnet hospitals usually focus on the organization rather than the individual nurse—suggesting that personal demands may remain high among nurses providing frontline care at Magnet facilities, Maryland study shows.
By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, August 23, 2010
Providers should be more attentive to asking patients about fall fears because the answers might be helpful in designing fall prevention efforts, study suggests.
By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, August 23, 2010
Trauma center treatment cost more when compared with non-trauma centers, but the overall benefits in terms of lives saved and quality of life-years gained, represents a more cost-effective way of treating patients with major trauma, Johns Hopkins researchers conclude.
By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, August 23, 2010
The California Nurses Association has asked the San Francisco Human Rights Commission to investigate its allegations of "systematic" employment discrimination at Sutter Health's California Pacific Medical Center and St. Luke's Hospital.
By: Philip Betbeze, for HealthLeaders Media, August 20, 2010
In preparation for an upcoming special report for HealthLeaders, I've spent much of the last two weeks interviewing CEOs and other hospital leadership types about the difficulties they've encountered while consolidating into another organization for economic reasons, or as a result of acquiring another for the same reasons. Yet I also saw the positive sides of these mergers. The leaders I spoke with expressed passion for the task at hand, and even exhilaration when their plans came together.