Complications Are Not Best Predictor Of Hospital Mortality, Study Find
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- 01/10/2009
The report in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine confirms that serious complications are common after major surgery
READ MOREThe report in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine confirms that serious complications are common after major surgery
READ MORENewly qualified junior doctors start their new positions in NHS hospitals in England on the first Wednesday in August. The authors of the study, from the Dr Foster Unit and the Department of Acute
READ MOREPhilip Spinella and Christopher Carroll, both paediatric intensivists from Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut, USA and their team studied 202 severe trauma patients treat
READ MOREZvi Stern of the Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel, and colleagues report that resident physicians, colloquially known as "residents" are the frontline providers of...
READ MOREThe study of the ADO index is published in the August 29 edition of The Lancet. Currently, the BODE index is used by chest physicians to estimate a patient
READ MORESince July 1, the new company is known as CareFusion Corporation. CareFusion became a separate publicly traded company on Sept. 1, 2009 from the spinoff of Cardinal Health's clinical and medical...
READ MOREThe procedure was performed Wednesday by Vivek Y. Reddy, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at Mount Sinai Heart, and his colleague, Srinivas R. Dukkipati,...
READ MOREThe American Heart Association recommends that defibrillation be performed within two minutes of cardiac arrest, according to background information in the article. Longer delays to defibrillation
READ MOREA new study by researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University School of Medicine has found that hospital discharge summaries are grossly inadequate at documenting both tests
READ MOREThe researchers developed the Evidence-based Practice for Improving Quality method and applied it to 12 Canadian Neonatal Network hospitals over a 3-year period. Working in multidisciplinary group
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