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American Academy of Pediatrics
When two pressure-cooker bombs exploded during the 2013 Boston Marathon, first responders and hospitals across the city coordinated a swift and effective response, caring for 264 patients across 26 local hospitals.1 Residents from the Boston Combined Residency Program were staffing three of these hospitals, whereas others were watching or running the marathon. Shortly after the bombings, overwhelmed by call volumes, cellular service went down across Boston.
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Harvard Business Review
While debate drags on about legislation, regulations and other measures to improve the U.S. healthcare system, a new wave of analytics and technology could help dramatically cut costly and unnecessary hospitalizations while improving outcomes for patients. For example, by preventing hospitalizations in cases of just two widespread chronic illnesses — heart disease and diabetes — the United States could save billions of dollars a year.
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HealthDay via News-Medical.Net
Emily S. Patterson, Ph.D., from The Ohio State University in Columbus, and colleagues elicited reactions from patients and family caregivers to intentional room elements embedded in a set of five full-scale simulated room prototypes. Two of the five rooms were toured by small groups of patients and caregivers who provided written and verbal evaluations of room features. A codebook was generated using a grounded theory approach, and the frequency of codes were identified; codes and memos were grouped into emerging themes.
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WBUR-FM (commentary)
Dr. Kathryn Kirkland writes: "I was eight months pregnant, huddled on my couch alone in a dark house, one hand hovering over the remote’s pause button, the other partially covering my eyes, wondering if 'Buffalo Bill' was going to skin the teenage girl alive.
That was 25 years ago, but the vivid memory of watching 'The Silence of the Lambs' returned when I read last month that the movie’s director, Jonathan Demme, had died. And I’ve been pondering the question of why I chose to watch a movie that I knew would scare the living daylights out of me."
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DVIDS
Four UH-60 Black Hawk medevac helicopters of the Maryland National Guard sit silently side by side on the ramp of airfield 21 at Camp Wainwright, Alberta, Canada. Their cockpits are vacant, and their blades only move by the gusting winds.
Flight crew personnel like Sgt. Rebecca Himmel from C MED 1/169 Aviation Regiment from the Maryland Army National Guard pass the time by playing pick-up games of soccer or horseshoes and staying in touch with family by phone, but that silence is inevitably broken by a familiar radio call.
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PatientEngagementHIT
Using nurse communication to deliver compassionate care is a high priority in the healthcare industry, especially considering the unique impact nurses have on the patient experience.
Nurse empathy and communications have a tremendous effect on patient satisfaction because nurses are on the frontlines of most patient encounters. Healthcare organizations across the country are working to instill values of compassionate and connected care with their nurses to improve the patient experience.
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The Buffalo News
Picture University at Buffalo medical students working in a vast, state-of-the-art advanced surgical simulation center honing their operating skills and training in a cutting-edge robotic surgery site. By January, that will be routine practice on the sixth floor of the university's new Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at Main and Allen streets on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
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Medscape
First-year enrollment at the nation's 147 allopathic medical schools continues to grow at a healthy clip, but it's not keeping up with the blistering pace set by 33 osteopathic medical schools.
As a result, allopathic schools increasingly compete with their osteopathic counterparts for clinical training sites where their students can master their profession, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, which represents allopathic institutions.
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McClatchey via EMS World
Mass casualty events — ranging from the slaughter of 26 innocents at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 to the bombs that killed three and injured more than 250 at the Boston Marathon in 2013 — have highlighted the need for a well-trained citizenry, according to a doctor promoting bleeding control techniques. After chronicling several other mass casualty attacks in the United States and Europe, Dr. Lenworth Jacobs said, "It's a big problem, and it's getting worse."
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FierceHealthcare
A virtual electronic health record is helping medical residents at the Indiana University School of Medicine navigate the complexities of providing healthcare to geriatric patients.
The residents are making use of a tool that includes detailed information from more than 11,000 records using real patient information that has been misidentified or altered to protect their privacy, according to AMA Wire.
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