Background Hospital readmissions are an important quality of care indicator and are tied to hospitals’ financial reimbursements. Safety-net hospitals, which serve a high proportion of patients of low ...

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Researchers have created a toolkit on providing trauma-informed care in nursing homes, a first for the sector.

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For decades, healthcare leaders have recognized the immense potential of hospital-level care at home. However, systemic barriers have largely kept this vision from becoming a reality. Today ...

They felt the Limestone Road facility was able to provide the level of care her dementia required. Yet in the months since 83-year-old Hsia was beaten to death by a fellow resident, her family has ...

“The highest level of care that you can provide is when you have full autonomy on the patient experience,” Romeo, program director for Orthopedics Today Hawaii, told Healio. “That means ...

Generation X, the so-called sandwich generation, have found themselves looking after ageing parents and kids still on their way to independence. Photo: Getty Images There are about to be a whole lot ...

Parts of India smouldered in a blistering heatwave in June during the world's hottest year on record Levels of the most significant planet-warming gas in our atmosphere rose more quickly than ever ...

Levels of the most significant planet-warming gas in our atmosphere rose more quickly than ever previously recorded last year, scientists say, leaving a key global climate target hanging by a thread.

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Hospital staff failed to follow protocol in care of patient who died after glucose levels went ‘dangerously low’, inquest hears John Byrne. Seán McCárthaigh ...