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April 4, 2011
FEATURED story
Improving the transitions of care
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Over the past year, the Johns Hopkins Health System Readmission Task Force—a group of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, case managers, administrators and other health care team members—has come up with evidence-based measures to improve patient-centered care by decreasing rehospitalizations. Read more
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HOT TOPICS
Unequal outcomes
Hopkins trauma surgeon Adil Haider wants to find out if certain groups of seriously injured patients in the United States have poorer outcomes than others. Read more
Seize the days
Oncologist Evan Lipson’s storytelling brings life with cancer into focus. Read more
TECHNOLOGY
Virtual house calls for Parkinson disease
Ray Dorsey, the new director of the Johns Hopkins Movement Disorders Center, is making telemedicine a reality for Parkinson disease patients. Read more
Computerized systems reduce psychiatric drug errors
Hopkins research shows how the 88-bed psychiatric unit went from a medication error rate of 27.89 per 1,000 patient days in 2003 to 3.43 per 1,000 patient days in 2007, a highly significant rate reduction. Read more
Under the Dome
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
When a child's heart fails
How a child with stomach pain was found to have advanced cardiomyopathy, and how Johns Hopkins physicians bridged her to a new heart. Read more
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Don’t lose heart
Cardiologists give hope for people with congestive heart failure. Read more [pdf]
Suburban Hospital
Saving a life
Suburban Hospital’s Code Heart team, along with quick-thinking first responders, saved the life of a man suffering a massive heart attack during a recent snowstorm. Read more [Gazette.Net]
Howard County General Hospital
On the road again after a stroke
Ann Rubsam is thankful that she could get her husband to Howard County General Hospital’s stroke center in time to save his life. Read more [pdf]
Sibley Memorial Hospital
Sibley and Mystics continue a partnership
The team holds its breast health awareness auction for the fourth consecutive year. Read more
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