Study on victims of child abuse: a study conducted in two teaching hospitals in Sri Lanka - Dharmadasa LS, Kithulwaththa IDG, Priyanath DC, Gunathilaka MAC, Silva LSKD, Kumari MKJK.
This study was conducted in order to identify the undetected contributory factors that le... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
CMS: Medicare Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals; Changes to Medicare Graduate Medical Education Payments for Teaching Hospitals; Changes to Organ Acquisition Payment Policies
Notice of final rule with comment period from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalizing provisions of the fiscal year 2022 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule related to Medicare graduate medical education (GME) for teaching hospitals and Medicare organ acquisition payment policies. This rule includes policies to distribute 1,000 new Medicare-funded physician residency slots to qualifying hospitals. This rule is effective February 25, 2022. Comments are due by February 25, 2022. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - December 27, 2021 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Ghana: NGO Pays Gh ₵25,000 Medical Bills for 26 Patients
[Ghanaian Times] Passion for Needy, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has presented a cheque for GH ₵25,000 to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) to settle medical bills for 26 treated patients. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 22, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Public Inspection: CMS: Medicare Program: Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals; Changes to Medicare Graduate Medical Education Payments for Teaching Hospitals; Changes to Organ Acquisition Payment Policies
Pre-publication notice of final rule with comment period from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalizing provisions of the fiscal year 2022 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule related to Medicare graduate medical education (GME) for teaching hospitals and Medicare organ acquisition payment policies. This rule includes policies to distribute 1,000 new Medicare-funded physician residency slots to qualifying hospitals. Comments are due within 60 days of the publication of this notice, which is scheduled for December 27, 2021. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - December 20, 2021 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Resident Doctors Decry Inadequate Medical Equipment
[Vanguard] The Association of Resident Doctors, University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (ARD-UATH), has called on government at all levels to please equip all medical facilities in the country with 21st-century equipment. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 16, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
" If the glove fits " : Hospital-wide universal gloving is associated with improved hand hygiene and may reduce Clostridioides difficile infection.
Objective: To determine whether a hospital-wide universal gloving program resulted in increased hand hygiene compliance and reduced inpatient Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) rates.
Design: We carried out a multiple-year before-and-after quasi-experimental quality improvement study. Gloving and hand hygiene compliance data as well as hospital-acquired infection rates were prospectively collected from January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2017, by secret monitors.
Settings: The University of Rochester Strong Memorial Hospital, an 849-bed quaternary-care teaching hospital.
Patients: All adult inpatients with the except...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - December 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Major trust’s CEO appointed DHSC director
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust chief executive Julian Hartley has been appointed a non-executive director at the Department of Health and Social Care. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - December 10, 2021 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Intimate partner violence among obstetric population at University of Abuja teaching hospital, Abuja, Nigeria - Sulaiman B, Omonua KI, Opadiran OR, Yabagi AI.
The objective ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 6, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Social work interventions with survivors of acts of political violence - Schiff M, Lesser L, Levine T, Savo Y, Dashti T, Rosenne H.
SummarySocial workers and students in a large teaching hospital explored the characteristics of psychosocial interventions during acts of political violence. The associations between hospital length of stay, Acute Stress Reaction, and the characteristics o... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 6, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Gambia: Trust Bank Ltd. Donates Medical Items to EFSTH Dialysis Unit
[The Point] As part of their corporate social responsibility, Trust Bank Limited, a private commercial bank in The Gambia has on Thursday 23 November, 2021 donated medical items worth D250,000 to the Dialysis Unit of the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital (EFSTH) in Banjul. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 25, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Ghana: Czech Medical Team Provide Free Medical Care to Tamale, Cape Coast Residents
[Ghanaian Times] Barely a month after a medical team from Czech Republic conducted 42 surgeries at the Tamale Teaching Hospital, another team has arrived in Ghana to carry out surgeries at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital in the Central Region. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 22, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Ghana: Sonotech, Others Support Kbth Breast Cancer Unit With Ghc10,000
[Ghanaian Times] Sonotech Medical and Diagnostics Centre and its partners have donated GHC10, 000 to the Breast Cancer Unit of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), to support the treatment of survivors of the disease. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 12, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Impact of Pharmacist-Directed Simplified Procalcitonin Algorithm on Antibiotic Therapy in Critically Ill Patients With Sepsis
Conclusion: Use of a simplified PCT algorithm with pharmacist-guided recommendations significantly reduced the duration of antibiotic therapy in critically ill patients with sepsis. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - November 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Speaker Mariano says health care bill would help save community hospitals
"Community hospitals are the most cost effective, quality care we can have in our system. They run leaner and more efficiently than all the teaching hospitals. That said, we need them in the system," House Speaker Ron Mariano told the Business Journal in an interview. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - November 5, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jessica Bartlett Source Type: news
Major NHS trust in Leeds cancels majority of elective operations at last minute because of Covid
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust postponed 'priority two' operations - surgeries that need to be completed within 28 days. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 4, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
