A Basic Hospital To-Do List Saves Lives
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A simple five-item checklist can prevent hospital infections.
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More than 1.5 million Americans are injured every year by drug errors in hospitals, nursing homes and doctor's offices, a count that doesn't even estimate patients' own medication mix-ups, says a report that calls for major steps to increase patient safety.
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The government posted mortality data on Thursday for the nation's thousands of hospitals for heart attacks and heart failure, in an effort to shed light on which hospitals provide the best care.
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A little planning now can save your loved ones lots of hassle.
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Treating heart-attack patients without losing any time and with a more aggressive regimen of cholesterol-lowering medicines can save many lives, shows new research.
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Hospital visitors are being urged to improve their hygiene in an effort to crack down on infections.
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A different perspective on the war in Iraq: behind the scenes at a hospital.
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Ministers have made tackling hospital infections and hitting waiting targets as key priorities for the coming year.
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Medical experts have compiled a checklist of seven signs that mothers and healthcare workers can use to identify severe illnesses in newborn infants requiring urgent treatment in hospital.
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What you can learn about the health-care system in 10 not-so-easy hours.
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New medical guidelines allow experienced nurses to decide on resuscitating patients.
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Your next doctor could be keeping an eye on you from afar &#151; via a camera and a bank of computer screens. An expanding number of hospitals are adopting technology that allows critical care doctors and nurses to monitor dozens of patients at different hospitals simultaneously, much as an air traffic controller keeps track of several planes.
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Promising to save doctors and nurses from as much as 60 minutes of paperwork per day, Motion Computing Inc. announced a tablet PC for hospital workers.
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NEW YORK  - Having difficulty breathing?   Sudden pain? Sudden changes in vision? Get to the emergency   department, advises the American College of Emergency   Physicians.
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A group of health care leaders said on Tuesday they were banding together to make U.S. hospitals less dangerous places to get well.
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Plans designed to cut the number of people who go to hospital instead of their GP are set to unveiled.
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Readers offer their own ideas on what should be included in a list of dead or dying skills for IT professionals.