'Secrets' of successful hospitals revealed
...atment of heart attacks is highly dependent on the timeliness of therapy. There are some hospitals that are achieving great performance; and if you break down their approach, you can see many key strategies that can be applied more broadly, so perhaps best practice can become typical practice," said Harlan M. K...Tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine, Feb. 21, 2006 issue
... for pneumonia should be focused on "improving the timeliness of antibiotic administration, especially at high-volume institutions, and on improving hospital-based vaccination rates."...Fighting the battle against disease - Leeds researchers take on the world
...stment. We believe that the quality, relevance and timeliness of our evidence can dramatically alter the approach and results of reaching the poor." Their successful approach to development is based on ten years of public health programme design and implementation experience, ensuring that the interventions are...Data shows use of a combination vaccine increased on-time immunization rates in infants
...widely recognized as a quality indicator; however, timeliness of childhood vaccinations may have important implications in reducing the risk of vaccine-preventable disease," continued Dr. Happe. "These results suggest that expanding the number of infants who receive combination vaccines may increase the number...UK hospitals poorly prepared for a 'major incident,' say researchers
... Their questioning revealed that the frequency and timeliness of dry runs of responses to potential major incidents varied widely. Most of the hospitals (82%) had carried out a dry run within the past five years, but only around a third (35%) were planning to do so within the next 12 months, despite the need ...Specific strategic plans ensure timely emergency care for heart attack patients
...November 13 New England Journal of Medicine. The timeliness of heart attack care in hospitals varies widely across the country, according to the authors. In this study, 365 hospitals nationwide were surveyed about how they treat heart attack patients. The researchers identified strategies that were correlated...IceSAR campaign provides glimpse of future Sentinel-1 images over ice
...the satellite will yield data with the quality and timeliness that users truly need. It is not surprising therefore, that airborne campaigns play an important role in helping with the design of these missions as the experiments carried out simulate satellite data long before the actual launch of the mission. ...New update of international health system comparisons: US continues to lag on most measures
...es the U.S. ranked last overall, including last on timeliness of care: 61% of U.S. patients said it was somewhat or very difficult to get care on nights or weekends, compared with 25%-59% in other countries. On efficiency, the U.S. ranked last overall, including last on percent of patients who have visited ...A new direction: Integrating best-practices to improve food responses
...y international food aid will improve the quality, timeliness and appropriateness of food aid, reports Daniel Maxwell, PhD, research director for Food Security and Complex Emergencies at the Feinstein International Center (FIC), part of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. In...