Hospital 30-day death rates decreased significantly for Medicare patients hospitalized for MI, as did the variation in the rate between hospitals, according to a study in the Aug. 19 issue of the Journal of American Medical Association.
A new set of clinical performance measures, jointly developed by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA), will help doctors and hospitals give the best possible care to MI patients by providing up-to-date tools for gauging how closely they're sticking to guideline recommendations and where they need to improve.
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New technology allows student doctors to practice operations and other procedures on simulators before trying them out on real patients, just as pilots practice for emergencies on aircraft simulators, according to a plenary paper session at the 2009 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) annual meeting in New Orleans on May 14.
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Middle age introduces itself in many ways; one is atrial fibrillation (AF). My onset of AF seems to have coincided with a mountain bike accident in the woods of North Carolina that resulted in some cracked ribs.
The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).