Source: NBC News The U.S. government says it will help develop a new Ebola drug — one of five drugs that are being tested against the deadly virus....
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Hospital Medicine: Flexible Schedule for Better Patient Care
Source: HealthLeadersMedia.com By having hospitalists admit a disproportionate number of patients at the start of their work week, they can then...
5 Tips on surgical attire — what to wear in, or around the operating room
Source: Becker’s Hospital Review AORN's New Surgical Attire Recommended Practices: Five Points to Know The Association of Perioperative Registered...
Alarm Fatigue — Do You Have It?
I know you can relate to this situation. You're walking through a parking lot when suddenly a car alarm starts going off and doesn't stop, and (I'm...
Wikipedia tracking helps with disease prediction
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico say that tracking Wikipedia page views can forecast the spread of influenza and dengue...
Don’t worry. Be happy… and improve patient safety/medical care.
Hospital Enacts New Mandatory Happy Hour for Employees “Go figure out the best way to improve patient safety and medical care at our hospital.” was...
Happiness: The path to better hospital performance
A paper published by Alex Edmans of the University of Pennsylvania in the Academy of Management Perspectives; vol. 26 no. 4, titled “Why Happy...
Happy hospitals make happy patients
“Imagine a hospital where morale is high, employee turnover is low and patient call buttons rarely go unanswered. That's exactly the type of culture...
Our Top-4 Ways to be happier at work
Better hospital care linked to happy staff A study of staff perceptions of quality of care at the National Health Service (NHS) hospitals in England...