Category Archives: Headline of the Day
High Use Of Antipsychotics In Nursing Homes Stirs Concerns, Reforms
February 6, 2013By: Lisa Chedekel | January 30, 2013 | The Westside Care Center in Manchester is ranked among the best nursing homes in Connecticut, receiving a ‘five-star’ rating for overall quality
Med School Pharma Gift Ban Has Lasting Impact
February 5, 2013By Cole Petrochko, Staff Writer, MedPage Today | Published: January 31, 2013 – Physicians who attended a medical school with a policy that prohibited gifts from drug companies were less likely
Carrots for Doctors
February 2, 2013NY Times | By BILL KELLER | January 27, 2013 WITH its ambitious proposal to pay doctors in public hospitals based on the quality of their work — not the
Surgical errors: In ORs, “never events” occur 80 times a week
January 30, 2013AMEDNEWS.com | By Kevin B. O’Reilly | Posted Jan. 21, 2013. The mistakes add up to $1.3 billion in medical liability payouts over 20 years and involve surgeons of all
Maker Aware of 40% Failure in Hip Implant
January 25, 2013NY Times By BARRY MEIER Published: January 22, 2013 | An internal analysis conducted by Johnson & Johnson in 2011 not long after it recalled a troubled hip implant estimated
Fiscal Footnote: Big Senate Gift to Drug Maker
January 21, 2013NY Times | By ERIC LIPTON and KEVIN SACK | Published: January 19, 2013; WASHINGTON — Just two weeks after pleading guilty in a major federal fraud case, Amgen, the
With Hospital Mistakes Steady, Room For Improvement
January 16, 2013January 14, 2013 | Hartford Courant | Annual report shows ‘adverse events’ rate hasn’t changed. At least since 1999, when an Institute of Medicine report called “To Err Is Human”
State Hospitals Face 2nd Highest Rate Of Federal Penalties Nationwide
January 15, 2013C-Hit | By: Lisa Chedekel | January 14, 2013 Connecticut fared second-worst in the country in the percentage of hospitals hit with federal penalties for selected quality-of-care measures and in
Post-Hospital Syndrome — An Acquired, Transient Condition of Generalized Risk
January 11, 2013By Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D. | N Engl J Med 2013 | To promote successful recovery after a hospitalization, health care professionals often focus on issues related to the acute
Cuomo Plans New Rules in Fight Against Sepsis
January 9, 2013By JIM DWYER Published: January 7, 2013 Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will announce in his State of the State Message this week that every hospital in New York must adopt