Best Practices
Nurse Scheduling Nightmares
How two clever nurse managers found low cost options to streamline scheduling.
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Latest Studies
Study Finds Nursing Workforce Is Growing More Diverse And Educated
More males and people of color are entering nursing, and more nurses are earning bachelor's degrees compared with...
Latest Studies
Even The Best Healthcare Facilities Can Do More To Prevent Infections
Healthcare-associated infections can be reduced by up to 55 percent by systematically implementing evidence-based infection prevention and control...
Latest Studies
‘Mindful People’ Feel Less Pain
Ever wonder why some people seem to feel less pain than others? A study conducted at Wake Forest...
Latest Studies
Patient Beware: Researchers Diagnose Crowdsourced Hospital Ratings
Consumers can go to Google, Yelp and Facebook for crowdsourced insight about the experiences they'll have at a...
Test Results via Email, Text or Web Portal?
The results of common medical tests are sometimes delivered to patients by email, letters or voice mail, but are these the most preferred methods?...
Count Your Bites, Count Down the Pounds
Forget counting calories. The next new diet trend could be as simple as counting bites. A new study found people who counted bites over a...
‘Ensemble’ Modeling Could Lead to Better Flu Forecasts
By combining data from a variety of non-traditional sources, a research team led by computational epidemiologists at Boston Children's Hospital has developed predictive models...
Don’t Believe the Hype: Grandiose Terms for Cancer Drugs
Seems like every day in the media we hear about a new cancer drug that is described as a 'game changer', 'breakthrough', 'revolutionary' or a...
Twitter Offers Valuable Insights Into the Experience of MRI Patients
MRI's can be a stressful experience for many people, but clinicians have few ways to track the thoughts and feelings of their patients regarding...
Developing The Tools To Find New Generation Antibiotics
Scientists at the University of York have taken an important step in the search to find new antibiotics that are effective against resistant bacteria....