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Website Eases Switch To New Healthcare Codes University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have developed a website that walks healthcare providers through the challenging transition from the current International Classification of Diseases -- ICD-9 -- to the new ICD-10... 18 May 2013
Survey Reveals Disagreement On The Role Of Primary Care Nurse Practitioners At a time when the U.S. health system is facing both an increasing demand for primary care services and a worsening shortage of primary care physicians, one broadly recommended strategy has been to increase the number and the responsibilities of nurse practitioners... 17 May 2013
New Algorithm Cluster To Data Mine Health Records Published By NJIT Computer Scientist The time may be fast approaching for researchers to take better advantage of the vast amount of valuable patient information available from U.S. electronic health records. Lian Duan, an NJIT computer scientist with an expertise in data mining, has done just that with the recent publication of "Adverse Drug Effect Detection," IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (March, 2013)... 16 May 2013
ICU Admissions From Emergency Departments Nearly Double A study released by George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) researchers offers an in-depth look at hospitals nationwide and admissions to intensive care units (ICU). The study, published in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine, finds a sharp increase - nearly 50 percent - in ICU admissions coming from U.S. emergency departments... 16 May 2013
Non-Communicable Disease Care And Mental Health Care Should Be Addressed Together Non-communicable diseases (NCD) and mental disorders each constitute a huge portion of the worldwide health care burden, and often occur together, so they should be addressed together. These are the conclusions of the third article in a series published in PLOS Medicine that provides a global perspective on integrating mental health... 16 May 2013
Targeting Frequent Health Care Users With Severe Addictions A program co-led by St. Michael's Hospital could be the next widely used model to treat patients who are frequent users of the health care system and have severe addictions, often complicated by homelessness and mental health problems... 16 May 2013
Shared Decision Making And How Decision Aids Help Guide Choices For Cancer Screening When it comes to a cancer diagnosis, timing can be everything - the sooner it's found, the more treatable it is... 14 May 2013
High Levels Of OR Noise Can Impair Surgical Team Communication, Have A Disruptive Effect On A Surgeon's Auditory Processing Abilities Ambient background noise - whether it is the sound of loud surgical equipment, talkative team members, or music - is a patient and surgical safety factor that can affect auditory processing among surgeons and the members of their team in the operating room (OR), according to a new study that appears in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons... 14 May 2013
Opportunity In Health Care System To Reach Out To Boys Contemplating Suicide More than 80 per cent of youth who die by suicide had some form of contact with the health care system in the year before their death, according to a new study from St. Michael's Hospital. "This suggests there are a lot of opportunities for prevention," said Dr. Anne Rhodes, a research scientist at the hospital's Suicide Studies Research Unit... 12 May 2013
Call For Hospitals To Establish Drug, Alcohol Tests For Physicians To improve patient safety, hospitals should randomly test physicians for drug and alcohol use in much the same way other major industries in the United States do to protect their customers. The recommendation comes from two Johns Hopkins physicians and patient safety experts in a commentary published online recently in The Journal of the American Medical Association... 9 May 2013
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