Patient Safety & Quality

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (824+ words) Therapist Samantha Quinn said she quickly gained 25 clients when she began offering in-home talk therapy for seniors earlier this year. Credit: Thomas Hengge For therapist Samantha Quinn, working with clients in their home is not just a benefit for those…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (106+ words) South China Morning Post Prince of Wales Hospital says man, 54, lacked identification and was given temporary identity, which contributed to wrong food order A Hong Kong patient died after suffering a heart attack when he was fed a regular meal…...

2+ day, 54+ min ago   (670+ words) ‘I realized in that hospital bed that I had unintentionally silenced myself,’ said the honoree at the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation’s Night of Compassion • 11 hours ago “The year was 1981,” began Billy Porter upon being honored at The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (627+ words) Newswise — A child can be in the hospital and seemingly getting better. Then, suddenly, everything changes. One moment they're playing games or watching television. The next, they experience breathing failure, shock, or neurological decline. If the warning signs aren't recognized…...

2+ day, 35+ min ago   (628+ words) A viewer named Dobson wrote in that his 90-year-old mother, who lives with him and has dementia, has become more stubborn and refuses to go to her medical checkups. Her doctor requires appointments every six months to authorize medication refills…...

2+ day, 28+ min ago   (79+ words) (IMAGE) eurekalert.org Taison Bell, MD, MBA, interim chair of UVA Health’s Department of Medicine, and colleagues assembled the new sepsis guidelines on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and seven other professional groups. May be used to…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (39+ words) RFK Jr.-linked group offered access to U.S. officials for payment Modern Healthcare RFK Jr.-linked group offered access to US officials for payment Molina Healthcare previously said it would end all individual Medicare Advantage sales nationwide next year....

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (102+ words) One thread of that work is already mapped out. Per Smithsonian Magazine, Pasca now plans to study frontotemporal dementia using xenocortical mice. Alison Singer, president of the Autism Science Foundation, called the ability to use an individual's genetic character in…...

2+ day, 2+ min ago   (362+ words) A UVA Health doctor and other leading national experts have developed important new guidelines to improve care for patients who develop sepsis, a dangerous full-body infection that kills at least 350,000 Americans every year. Taison Bell, MD, MBA, interim chair of…...

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