Morton Plant Hospital in Florida and Children s Nebraska have won awards from the American Nurses Credentialing Center for their innovative patient care and nursing programs.
Patients who have had multiple primary care clinicians are more likely to visit the emergency department after hip or knee replacement surgery than those with a single clinician.
In a study that examined more than 100,000 hospitalizations, patients were 39% more likely to have a critical illness event (eg, death, ICU transfer) after they had been exposed to one such previous event.