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Anchor lead: What can we learn from data extracted from electronic medical records? Elizabeth Tracey reports Sepsis, where someone develops an infection that spreads throughout their body and can be life-threatening, appears to be increasing. Yet a new study published …
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Anchor lead: How can design thinking improve people’s experiences in the hospital? Elizabeth Tracey reports Patient experiences in the hospital should be the best they can be, and to that end, Johns Hopkins chief patient experience officer Lisa Allen and …
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Anchor lead: How can studying the experience of patients in the hospital help improve things? Elizabeth Tracey reports If you’ve been a patient in a hospital lately, you’ve likely been given a questionnaire to evaluate your experience. Fill it out. …
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This week’s topics include how the Zika virus changed, outcomes after surgery and health literacy, e-cigarettes and healthcare costs, and a reaction to tattooing. Program notes: 0:36 Case report of an outcome after a tattoo 1:32 Reaction to the tattoo …
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This week’s topics include physician assisted suicide, preventing infection post-C-section in obese women, 12 year outcomes of bariatric surgery, and death among triathletes. Program notes: 0:46 Triathlon events and death 1:43 Half with previously unknown cardiac problems 2:43 Trouble in …
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Anchor lead: Just how much abuse do nurses endure? Elizabeth Tracey reports Occupational Safety and Health Administration data tell us that healthcare workers are four times more likely than others to experience workplace violence, a statistic that may not be …
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Anchor lead: What are the implications of the recent viral story on police handcuffing a nurse? Elizabeth Tracey reports A policeman handcuffing an emergency department nurse for 20 minutes in late July went viral, and has precipitated a lot of …
