The story of Maine's health program — which tries to control hospital costs, improve the quality of health care and offer subsidized insurance to low-income people — harbors lessons for the country, as covering the uninsured takes center stage.
Nurses' perceptions of the administration process changed at the hospital that implemented BCMA, whereas perceptions of nurses at the control hospital did not.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the inpatient, nurse-administered Tobacco Tactics program for patients admitted for psychiatric conditions in two Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals compared to a control hospital.
Similarly, the inability to accurately calculate the HIV testing rates at the control hospital limits the extent to which we can interpret the comparison with the HIV testing trends at our own institution.
There was no intervention in the control hospital.
Time-series results are also presented for the control hospital.
At the control hospital we approached 57 (63%) residents at the first measurement.
Monitoring ICU performance is, therefore, increasingly important in the fight to control hospital expenses.
There is however no statistically significant difference between the control hospital and the two others.
One hospital was used as the intervention hospital and the other one as the control hospital.
In the control hospital, the electronic system did not contain this information.
