When hospitals implement programs to optimize patients' recovery from surgery, healthcare costs fall and patients show improved outcomes. One major benefit of the programs -- known as enhanced ...

Discharge within 2 days is safe and feasible in almost two-thirds of patients with uncomplicated ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) receiving percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement who are discharged early after the procedure do not fare any worse than patients who stay in the hospital longer, according to the results of ...

This report addresses an important issue: Does early hospital discharge result in lower overall costs, or are there compensatory post-hospital costs following premature discharge? The results based on ...

But many organizations are falling short even though they have spent so much time running performance improvement projects and customizing their EHR. During a March webinar hosted by Becker’s Hospital ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The prospective, multinational, investigator-initiated, single-arm, phase 4 HoT-PE trial included adults with ...

Patients with breast cancer who require axillary clearance traditionally remain in hospital until their wound drains are removed. Early discharge has been shown to improve clinical outcomes, but there ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a new study, among low-risk patients who received primary PCI for STEMI, an early discharge pathway was shown ...

OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to determine if early postnatal discharge (EDC; ≤48 hours) in well newborns had an effect on the rate of hospital readmission within the first week after hospital ...

Early discharge from the emergency department resulted in more than 10,000 Medicare patients dying, annually. Researchers determined that low-volume hospitals actually had higher rates of early death.

Bevacizumab in Combination With Chemotherapy As First-Line Therapy in Advanced Gastric Cancer: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase III Study We enrolled 117 patients with 121 febrile ...