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Uptake of new heart failure drugs slow despite guidelines
April 5, 2017
Ivabradine and sacubitril/valsartan reduce mortality and hospitalizations.
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New-onset AF boosts bad HFrEF outcomes
April 4, 2017
WASHINGTON – Monitor patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction for atrial fibrillation.
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Data-driven HR, RR parameters might help reduce alarm fatigue
April 3, 2017
New research shows data-driven parameters resulted in 55.6% fewer out-of-range vital sign measurements, for CRA, RRT activation.
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Sneak Peak: The Hospital Leader Blog
April 3, 2017
There is no doubt transparency is important, and patients should be informed when hospitalized as outpatients instead of as inpatients. But the wisdom of the federal NOTICE Act essentially stops there.
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Principles learned from a successful improvement program can increase compliance and reduce hospital acquired VTEs (HA-VTEs) across multiple institutions
March 30, 2017
Clinical question: Can a single institution's VTE prophylaxis program be scaled to increase prophylaxis and reduce HA-VTEs across multiple institutions?
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When one patient decompensates, others on the ward may follow
March 30, 2017
Clinical question: How does the clinical decompensation of a ward patient affect the likelihood of another patient’s decompensation?
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Preoperative VTEs occurred in 10% of cancer patients
March 27, 2017
SEATTLE – Those with preoperative VTEs were significantly more likely to experience postoperative complications.
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Interventions, especially those that are organization-directed, reduce burnout in physicians
March 27, 2017
Clinical Question: How efficacious are interventions to reduce burnout in physicians?
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Alpha blockers may facilitate the expulsion of larger ureteric stones
March 27, 2017
Clinical Question: Are alpha blockers efficacious in patients with ureteric stones?
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End-of-rotation resident transition in care and mortality among hospitalized patients
March 25, 2017
Clinical Question: Are hospitalized patients experiencing an increased mortality risk at the end-rotation resident transition in care and is this association related to the Accreditation C.ouncil for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) 2011 duty-hour regulations?
