Risks: Lax Catheter Policies Seen at Many Hospitals
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Despite the well-established danger from urinary catheters, a new study finds that hospitals are doing very little to reduce the risks of infection.
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For some patients, it can be difficult to determine how much treatment is just too much.
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Editor&#39;s Note: Published on page A19 of the Nov. 23, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. This was the Department of Health&#39;s advice yesterday to the public over the
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NEW YORK  - Resources used by different physicians in intensive care units (ICU) vary widely without influencing patient outcomes, according to a report in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
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Patients will be put at risk by a new regulatory system for homeopathic medicine, experts say.
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Infections acquired in hospitals, which take a heavy toll on patients, arise mainly from poor hygiene in hospital procedures, not from how sick patients were when they were admitted, according to three new studies.
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It's a new way to push for patient safety: Don't pay hospitals when they commit certain errors. Medicare will start hitting hospitals where it hurts in October, and other insurers are hot on the trail
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Only two months ago, the Emergency Department at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital was piled high with patient charts: files clogged with physicians' notes and nurses' follow-throughs, with test orders and lab results and a plethora of other printouts and paperwork. As in most EDs, keeping track of everyt...
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NEW YORK  - A substantial number of  "adverse events" -- many of which could have been prevented --  affect children in hospitals each year, according to a new  study.
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Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital in March became the first institution in the U.S. to be audited for compliance with the security rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Here's what health officials wanted to know.
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There are reports a bacteria plaguing Quebec hospitals is more widespread and deadly than previously believed. After studying the spread of Clostridium difficile bacteria at eight hospitals in Montreal, a
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For weeks, we&#39;ve been reporting the story of four people hospitalized in Florida. They&#39;re on ventilators after receiving injections of an anti-wrinkle substance from a Florida clinic.
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New guidelines are warning people of the dangers of not choosing their plastic surgeons carefully enough.
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A simple five-item checklist can prevent hospital infections.
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Out with stainless steel, in with copper? It might be a new hospital trend Â not for looks, but for germ-fighting. Some intensive-care units in New York and South Carolina are about to get copper fittings as part of a project to test if drug-resistant bacteria survive better on hospitals' ubiquitous stainless steel than on copper.
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Although special financing plans for health care carry risks, using regular credit cards to pay medical bills may be even more dangerous to household finances.
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LOS ANGELES A troubled South Los Angeles hospital has paid higher medical malpractice costs per patient in recent years than any other public or University of California hospital in the state.