"Reducing complications and increasing safety is why we're there," he said.
Neither are the purchasers of health care plans in the dark about the role of health behaviors in preventing disease and reducing complications from pre-existing illness.
In the past year, I've thought nothing of asking my hospital to spend some hundred thousand dollars to upgrade the surgical equipment I use, in the vague hope of giving me finer precision and reducing complications.
By intervening before a patient crashes, or reducing complications like ventilator-induced pneumonia, watchful intensivists significantly improve the hospital's bottom line by helping patients improve and leave the ICU faster, proponents say.
By Avi Zenilman October 18, 2009 At the talk "The Death of the Master Builder: A Story of Risk, Medicine, and Skyscrapers," Atul Gawande built on the ideas he elucidated in his 2007 article, "The Checklist," about the surprising impact of basic checklists in reducing complications from surgery.
At the talk "The Death of the Master Builder: A Story of Risk, Medicine, and Skyscrapers," Atul Gawande built on the ideas he elucidated in his 2007 article, "The Checklist," about the surprising impact of basic checklists in reducing complications from surgery.
The procedure was heretical in principle: deliberately exposing a patient to bacteria in the operating room violated a basic tenet of modern surgery, the concept known as "maintaining a sterile field," which, along with prophylactic antibiotics, is credited with sharply reducing complications and mortality rates.
This procedure is designed to replace midurethral mesh sling operation, aiming at reducing complications.
Rapid host immune recovery following BMT is critical for reducing complications and improving therapeutic outcome.
Nutritional supplementation is efficacious in improving weight, and in reducing complications and mortality in the hospital.
Early surgical intervention allows for early mobilization and rehabilitation, thus reducing complications, morbidity and mortality, and improving overall outcomes [14].
