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- Study: ICU intensivists increase hospice, palliative care referrals
When the ICU at the University of Florida's Academic Health Center went to round-the-clock staffing with attending intensivists, the number of referrals to hospice and palliative care tripled, reducing medically unnecessary care and possibly costs, UF researchers told a physician conference. Critical care fellow Dr. Eric Papierniak said there wasn't a special effort to increase referrals but the intern pairs who had been staffing the ICU at night may not have felt qualified to make decisions about aggressive treatment. MedPage Today (free registration)
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- Report: Uninsured have shorter ICU stays after spine trauma
Nonwhite and black patients had higher mortality rates following spine trauma, along with the uninsured who also had shorter ICU stays and ventilator time, Dr. Andrew Schoenfeld told the North American Spine Society 2012 Annual Meeting. The study included data on 75,351 cases of spine trauma taken from the National Trauma Database. Healio
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Survey Results: The Role of Mobility Strategies in Healthcare
Nearly 300 healthcare organizations were surveyed to better understand how hospitals are implementing mobility strategies and what topics they identify as important to consider. Read report. |
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- NICU nurses evacuate infants in darkness after Sandy cuts power
After superstorm Sandy knocked out power at New York University's Langone Medical Center, and the backup generators did not work, NICU nurses, physicians and other clinicians worked in the dark to take critically ill infants down flights of stairs so they could be transferred to other facilities. For infants on ventilators, it took multiple nurses to carry a baby, press the ventilation mask to the baby's face and tote the equipment. Times Union (Albany, N.Y.)
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(10/31)
- House lawmakers finalize compounding pharmacy bills
Democrats in the House plan to introduce two separate bills that would require compounding pharmacies to meet the same sterility requirements as large drugmakers and subject them to increased FDA oversight. Federal investigators found contamination in two more drugs made by the New England Compounding Center. The Wall Street Journal
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- IT essential for better care, doctor and ex-Kaiser chief says
A recently released report from the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation finds that one of the biggest causes of preventable medical errors is a lack of care coordination, and one of the report's authors says that can't be addressed without health IT systems. "IT is a substantial enabler," said Dr. David M. Lawrence, a former leader of Kaiser Permanente and one of the report's authors. "You almost cannot do complex medical care without that kind of connectivity." InformationWeek/InformationWeek Healthcare
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