Rise in hospital readmissions
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Fears are raised over the handling of the NHS as figures show emergency readmission rates to hospital are rising.
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US Medicare patients&#39; monthly premiums for outpatient care will jump a record US$11.60 next year, while deductibles for hospitalized patients will rise US$36, the biggest increase in 14 years, reported Monday&#39;s China Daily.
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The number of people paying their mortgages late â or not paying them at all â increased up in recent months, a trend that is expected to continue well into next year.
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Nearly 5 million hospital admissions might have been prevented in 2000 if patients had received high quality primary and preventive care, according to a government report issued on Thursday.
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The nation&#39;s leading patient-safety oversight group will call Wednesday for hospitals to do more to keep patients from &quot;waking up&quot; during surgery - a sometimes horrifying experience
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The estimated number of influenza-associated hospitalizations among elderly patients has increased substantially during the past 20 years, a US study found.
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The nation&#39;s leading patient-safety oversight group is calling on hospitals to do more to keep patients from &quot;waking up&quot; during surgery -- an experience that medical experts believe happens 50 to 100 times each day.
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Facing cutthroat competition, escalating expenses, and declining revenues, some of the region&#39;s hospitals are trying to boost their bottom lines by offering
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Premiums for job-based health insurance jumped 11.2 percent on average this year across the nation, according to a survey released Thursday, the latest evidence of a painful rise in medical costs that is placing an increasingly heavy burden on employers
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In a bid to free up blocked beds, patients are being discharged from hospital against their needs, a report shows.
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Hospitals are renovating, rebuilding and expanding in part because they remain vital points of entry for paying patients whose eventual admission accounts for needed revenue.
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Some Connecticut hospitals are reporting an increase in the number of women seeking mammograms following Gov. M. Jodi Rell's announcement that she has breast cancer.
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Applications for home mortgages jumped to their highest level in nearly four years as low interest rates led more homeowners to seek refinancing, according to data from an industry group on Wednesday.
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The health insurer beats some estimates and raises others.
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THE number of people in Britain who have HIV is continuing to rise, with more than 7,000 new cases in the past year. Statistics from the Health Protection Agency show that 53,000 adults have
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Number of senior women quitting also on increase.
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Retirees who receive health benefits from their former employers saw premiums shoot up an average of 25 percent this year, a new study says.