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Many Hispanics Don’t Call an Ambulance For Stroke: Study

February 1, 2012
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Hispanics are less likely to call an ambulance when they're having a stroke, one reason why Hispanics are about half as likely as non-Hispanics to have a favorable outcome after a stroke, a new study suggests. University of California, San Diego, ...

National Study Shows Majority Of Self-Harming Adolescents Don’t Receive A Mental Health Assessment During Emergency Room Visit

February 1, 2012
A national study of Medicaid data shows most young people who present to emergency departments with deliberate self-harm are discharged to the community, without receiving an emergency mental health assessment. Even more, a roughly comparable proportion of these patients receive no outpatient mental health care in the following month. These ...

Accidents don’t just happen: New Book on trends and takeaways in injury research

January 31, 2012
Two esteemed researchers in the field of injury research have published the most comprehensive reference book to date on the methods and approaches underpinning the scientific discipline of injury control and prevention.

Accidents don’t just happen: New Book on trends and takeaways in injury research

January 31, 2012
January 30, 2012 -- Two esteemed researchers in the field of injury research have published the most comprehensive reference book to date on the methods and approaches underpinning the scientific discipline of injury control and prevention. Editors Guohua Li, MD, DrPH, professor of epidemiology at ...

Accidents don’t just happen: New Book on trends and takeaways in injury research

January 31, 2012
(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Researchers in the field of injury research have published the most comprehensive reference book to date on the methods and approaches underpinning the scientific discipline of injury control and prevention.

Majority of self-harming adolescents don’t receive a mental health assessment in ERs

January 30, 2012
A national study of Medicaid data shows most young people who present to emergency departments with deliberate self-harm are discharged to the community, without receiving an emergency mental health assessment. Even more, a roughly comparable proportion of these patients receive no outpatient mental health care in the following month. These ...

Majority of self-harming adolescents don’t receive a mental health assessment in ERs

January 30, 2012
(Nationwide Children's Hospital) A national study of Medicaid data shows most young people who present to emergency departments with deliberate self-harm are discharged to the community, without receiving an emergency mental health assessment. Even more, a roughly comparable proportion of these patients receive no outpatient mental health care in the ...

Very good experiences don’t just happen for patients

January 29, 2012
A new training program for emergency department staff at Rhode Island Hospital teaches communication skills by having staff take part in simulations of real patient experiences. The goal is to improve the patient experience by standardizing both team and patient communication in an emergency department (ED) setting. The program will ...

Very good experiences don’t just happen for patients

January 28, 2012
PROVIDENCE, R.I. A new training program for emergency department staff at Rhode Island Hospital (www.rhodeislandhospital.org) teaches communication skills by having staff take part in simulations of real patient experiences. The goal is to improve the patient experience by standardizing both team and patient communication in an emergency department (ED) ...

Very good experiences don’t just happen for patients

January 28, 2012
(Lifespan) A new training program for emergency department staff at Rhode Island Hospital teaches communication skills by having staff take part in simulations of real patient experiences. The goal is to improve the patient experience by standardizing both team and patient communication in an emergency department setting. The program will ...

Study identifies why some young people choose to get tested for STDs and others don’t

January 27, 2012
(Medical Xpress) -- A recent study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Maryland identified the reasons why college-age individuals would be tested for sexually transmitted diseases.  These findings are valuable in developing public health awareness advertising campaigns.        

Breast Cancer Survival – Why Avastin And Sutent Don’t Help

January 26, 2012
Avastin and Sutent, two breast cancer drugs, do not lead to longer survival, probably because they encourage an increase in the number cancer stem cells in breast tumors, according to a study carried out on mice by researchers from the Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, and published in the Proceedings of ...