AED: Have you seen them in action?
September 21, 2008 by Kendra James, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Death Rates Among Heart Attack Patients Are Lower At Higher Ranked Hospitals
July 10, 2007 by Kendra James, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Individuals admitted for heart attack to a hospital ranked as one of “America’s Best” by U.S. News & World Report are less likely to die within 30 days than those admitted to a non-ranked hospital, according to a report in the July 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Surprising? Nah! That is what I would expect a study to find. The door to treatment time will be faster at higher ranked hospitals as well as the training and treatment practices of the clinicians that practice there.
There could be many reasons for these …read more




