Study indicates why hospitalists improve hospital efficiency
...ome care. "We believe hospitalists may become more efficient in arranging needed nursing services after dischar...t patients, suggesting that hospitalists were more efficient in performing the necessary evaluation and treatment of patients in the hospital to allow them to be...Tobacco sponsorship of Formula One must stop, say health experts
...and tobacco sponsorship of motor sports remains an efficient way to reach boys and adolescent males. Races are increasingly being held in key emerging markets throughout Asia with either minimal regulation or negotiated exemptions. In an unprecedented step, British American Tobacco (BAT) even established its ...New study shows phonics is critical for skilled reading
...rengthens the visual process until it becomes more efficient and does more of the work," he adds. While one approach to reading may work harder at certain points in a reader's career, skilled readers use both sounds and spelling at the same time for reading almost all words. Many people hear a "voice in the ...UCI center finds perchlorate may be acceptable in drinking water at higher levels
...th their efforts to promote health, to enhance the efficient and fair use of water resources and to protect the environment. The center considers the entire urban water system, including water use, water economics and the institutional systems. About the University of California, Irvine: The University of Cal...May/June 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...atched interventions might make office visits more efficient and increase physician and patient satisfaction. ...ow that clustered samples are not as statistically efficient as simple random samples. Click here to view a pdf of the complete article. Adjusted X2 Statisti...Using 'smart fluids' to retrain muscles
...cult to conceal. ERF-powered orthothics, which are efficient and streamlined, would revolutionize rehabilitation therapy....UK Engineers open flight path to quieter aircraft
...irst has led to the development of computationally efficient calculations of the noise made by helicopter blades moving at high subsonic speeds. It involved developing innovative but simple computer-based models that can provide a better understanding of how noise is produced during flight. The second project ...Interventional procedures significantly improve quality of life for obese patients
..."Outpatient procedures are less expensive and more efficient for both the patient and the hospital. In addition, this study demonstrates that these patients can be safely operated upon in a surgicenter which further reduces the cost of the procedure." Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass Results in Decreased Medicat...PACS increase physician productivity by more than a third
...r. Broumandi said. This study illustrates that the efficient use of PACS is an effective way to handle current and expected growth in patient volume without adding more radiologists to staff, Dr. Broumandi said. Dr. Broumandi will present the study on May 4 at the American Roentgen Ray Society Annual Meeting i...Cancer gene therapy news backgrounder: New ideas fuel next generation gene therapy research
...Templeton hit upon a liposome size that had a very efficient transfer into cells," says Charles Lu, M.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology and co-investigator. The liposomes carry a new payload as well. They encase, like shrink wrap, a normal p53 gene as well ...Researchers define mechanism that enables stem cells to track migrating brain tumor cells
...r migration toward glioma cells may allow for more efficient isolation of potential tumor-tracking cells, which may hasten the therapeutic testing of glioma-tracking neural precursors in the clinical setting," said Dr. Black, who holds the Ruth and Lawrence Harvey Chair in Neuroscience at Cedars-Sinai....North Shore-LIJ attains accreditation of human research protections processes
... involving human subjects. BRANY's streamlined and efficient processes for administering research contracts and reviews have brought greater numbers of investigational therapies to the people of Long Island, Queens and Staten Island. About North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System The nation's third...Special incubators allow high-quality imaging of critically ill newborns
...ubators are beneficial for babies and will be cost efficient in the long run." Dr. Blml is hopeful that this new technology will allow more MR studies of newborns, which will result in earlier and improved diagnoses and enable early intervention and treatment. He believes that the incubator's safe environment...Researchers invent way to determine optimal conditions for spinal cord nerve regen in lab animals
...rd it -- enables researchers to design a maximally efficient system for achieving the best regrowth," says Anthony Windebank, M.D., neurologist, molecular neuroscientist and joint principal investigator. "We feel that this research program will make a contribution toward a solution to the spinal cord injury p...Combination PET/CT should be used to determine stage of non-small cell lung cancer
...ile it is good at predicting N0 disease, it is not efficient in distinguishing between N1 and N2 disease. The study used real-time PET/CT, which provides images immediately rather than requiring time to develop pictures from data gathered by the individual imaging machines. Other researchers on this study in...Physicians, patients must work together on new electronic relationships
... becomes more personal and office visits seem more efficient and less emotionally charged," they write. "And with time 'off-line' to reflect and learn, patients appear better able to grasp information that is central to their care. Indeed, as one of our patients told us: 'Exchanges by e-mail are the next best ...Researchers identify leukemia-linked pathway targeted by a new kinase inhibitor
... the pathway." First, the team developed the first efficient and accurate mouse models of both forms of BCR-ABL1-induced leukemia. Next, they discovered that three of the Src kinase class of enzymes are required for B-ALL but not for CML, suggesting that different therapeutic strategies should be used for trea...Strategies could make for safer shift changes at hospitals
...ining the situation, with the idea that a safe and efficient hospital can be run on a shift basis just like other businesses, said Emily Patterson, a visiting researcher at Ohio State's Institute for Ergonomics. "When research showed that extreme fatigue was causing medical residents to make errors, one of the...Further studies comparing rehydration therapies would waste resources, say researchers
...ethods to improve the uptake of this effective and efficient intervention in both low- and high-income countries so that children around the world can benefit from ORT."...'Virtual colonoscopy' techniques and training need to be improved before widespread clinical use
...plinary collaboration will be needed to ensure its efficient application," the authors write....