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Anchor lead: Education helps make sure people receive medicines to prevent blood clots, Elizabeth Tracey reports Blood clot prevention is extremely important in hospitalized persons, but more than 10% of the time doses of medicines to prevent them are missed. …
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Anchor lead: Why do patients in the hospital refuse blood clot prevention medicine? Elizabeth Tracey reports Blood clots are a big problem for hospitalized patients, and can result in death. Yet in more than one in ten circumstances medicines to …
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Anchor lead: How can technology help support people to age as well as possible? Elizabeth Tracey reports Can engineering technologies enable help older people age in place? That’s one hope of the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare at Johns …
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Anchor lead: One of the biggest barriers for some people with chronic illness is access to care, Elizabeth Tracey reports ‘Social determinants of health’ is one of the most used buzz-phrases currently, identifying someone’s social factors as primary in determining …
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Anchor lead: A comprehensive approach to healthcare benefits all, Elizabeth Tracey reports A program known as J-ChiP, for Johns Hopkins Community Partnership, not only saves millions of dollars in healthcare costs for people with chronic illness, it creates an entire …
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Anchor lead: Efforts to reduce ED crowding don’t seem to be helping, Elizabeth Tracey reports Emergency departments are more crowded than ever, with some patients waiting many hours to be seen, a recent study concluded. Patricia Davidson, dean of the …
