Search results for "Technology"
CABG rates decline, PCI rates remain steady between 2001 and 2008
The annual rate of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) in the U.S. declined by more than 30% between 2001 and 2008, while rates of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) were steady, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/05/04/1.htm
4 May 2011
Pocket-sized procedures
Ultrasound images, formerly only available from machines weighing hundreds of pounds and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, can now be viewed on devices significantly smaller in both size and price.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/05/ultrasounds.htm
15 May 2011
Letter from the Editor
This issue examines antibiotic stewardship programs, rapid response systems, pocket ultrasounds, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/05/lfe.htm
15 May 2011
Technology helps to monitor hand hygiene
A new system at Princeton Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala., reduced health care-associated infections by about 20%.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/07/success.htm
15 Jul 2011
Reducing unnecessary testing
Efforts to test more judiciously represent a dramatic shift in the way physicians use tests to aid diagnosis and guide treatment.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/07/coverstory.htm
15 Jul 2011
In the News
Central line infection rates, organizational characteristics of hospitalist groups, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/07/itn.htm
15 Jul 2011
The hospital of the future
ACP Hospitalist interviewed experts in technology development, health care design and hospital administration to learn about upcoming changes in hospital operations and design.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/08/coverstory.htm
15 Aug 2011
The white coat of the future
A newly developed fabric repels and kills bacteria that land on it.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/08/infection.htm
15 Aug 2011
Tablet computers in the hospital
Doctors are snapping up the new gadgets, but not all of them are impressed.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/08/tablet.htm
15 Aug 2011
It takes a hospital to reduce pressure ulcers
Fairview Southdale Hospital, a 352-bed acute care hospital in Edina, Minn., reduced pressure ulcer rates from 0.35 to 0.16 per 1,000 patient-days.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/08/success.htm
15 Aug 2011