Hospitalization Rate Articles & Analysis
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Each of the hospital systems represents a significant presence in their regions. Two of the hospitals are part of leading healthcare organizations in New Jersey – one that comprises 17 hospitals, and the other that offers more than 400 sites of care, including hospitals, physician practices, urgent care centers, outpatient ...
“Shorter length of hospital stay has an enormous potential for hospital cost savings as hospitals receive a single block payment under DRG rules of reimbursement. All hospital systems are rated under this metric and seeking ways to improve it is one of the reasons we have adopted BVA locally,” stated ...
Periodic monitoring through ReDS™ Pro and titration of medicines in heart failure patients can potentially reduce hospitalization rates by 30%. ReDS™ technology has been adapted for medical use from an Israeli military application where it was used to see through walls. ...
The prospective, multi-center trial met all primary safety and efficacy endpoints and resulted in low rates of HF hospitalization, further validating pulmonary artery (PA) pressure-guided HF management as standard of care for NYHA class III heart failure patients. ...
Capricor Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CAPR), a biotechnology company focused on the development of transformative cell and exosome-based therapeutics, announced today that its Phase 2, INSPIRE study evaluating a single-dose intravenous infusion of CAP-1002 as a potential treatment option for hospitalized patients with advanced symptoms of COVID-19 met its primary objective of safety. ...
The paper states that current techniques for repairing birth defects in the esophagus, "have significant costs, complication rates, lengthy hospital stays, and significant morbidities. Therefore, the development of novel approaches that bridge a primary long gap…are highly desired." ...
” RCSM’s RPM solution, powered by Spire Health, is built on unique Health Tag sensor technology, which continuously monitors respiration rate, pulse rate, and activity levels and automatically notifies the care team of potential changes in a patient’s condition. ...
“The RPM system identifies baseline deviations in respiration, pulse rate, and activity then triggers a notification to respiratory therapists (RTs). ...
This negative cycle causes a downward spiral in patients, leading to increased mortality and high re-admission rates. We are excited about Aortix’s potential to disrupt the harmful CRS cycle through its simultaneous cardiac unloading and enhancement of renal ...
It’s thanks to the world’s first non-invasive lung function monitor, the MediPines AGM100®, developed in California, tested at University of British Columbia and Stevenson Memorial Hospital, and approved for use in Canada. Hospitals are reporting a dramatic decline in ICU admission rates and hospitalized COVID-19 ...
The cSOFA score (Covid Sequential Organ Failure Assessment) measures the likelihood of clinical deterioration in Covid-19 patients, enabling triage and assignment to the general ward or intensive care units (ICU) upon admission and during the patients’ hospital stay. A low score allows medical decisions to be made on safely discharging patients from the ...
In June, employment increased by 4.8 million, with most of the gains coming from retail, leisure, and hospitality. The unemployment rate dropped to 11.1 percent, but the true rate, after adjusting for the misclassification error, is 12.3 percent. ...
Using the RESMON PRO DIARY (the home version of the well proven, hospital, clinical unit, the RESMON PRO FULL), 312 patients from 5 different European countries have been successfully monitored for 9 months and their treatment adjusted according to the alerts automatically sent by the device to the clinical staff. This approach significantly reduced the duration and frequency of ...
Procedures were performed at five prestigious U.S. centers: NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, University of Michigan Health Center, Riverside Methodist Hospital/OhioHealth, Intermountain Medical Center, and Yale New Haven Hospital. ...
Hospitals are safe places to work - right? Well, maybe not. US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2014 (the most recent year published) show that total recordable case rate for hospitals (injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers) is 6.2. The hospital injury rate is higher than in mining ...
Ratings systems and online review sites have hospitals under the magnifying glass more than ever. ...
Environmental Protection Agency recognizes two leading asthma management programs -- Green and Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) in Baltimore, Md. and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital CHAMPS Program in Memphis, Tenn. -- for comprehensive, in-home interventions and innovative asthma education to improve the lives of people with asthma in underserved communities. ...
Bladder scanning is a critical component of a comprehensive catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) prevention program, an area of intense focus for hospitals given recent Medicare penalties for hospitals with high CAUTI rates as part of the Medicare hospital-acquired condition (HAC) reduction program. Under this ...
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The article cited a new medical report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality highlighting that in 2009, skin infections resulted in 71,900 children hospital admissions. The data illustrated that skin infection hospitalization rates have increased from 4.5 cases per 10,000 children in 2000 to 9.4 cases in 2009. This remarkable ...
News of these infection control problems coincide with a new federal report that was just released that shows an increase in hospitalization rates of children with skin infections. The report showed that in 2009, 71,900 children spent time in a hospital for skin infections. This figure correlates to an infection rate of 9.4 ...