University Hospital Zurich
Raemistrasse 100 Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland)
German Hospital Service
Destouchesstr. 1 Munchen, Bayern (Germany)
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust
162 City Road London, Greater London (UK)
Flinders Medical Centre
Flinders Drive, Bedford Park South Australia (Australia)
Schmerzfreies Krankenhaus
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Description
The project is painfree hospital
In 2003 the pilot project started with the goal of painfree hospital the care of patients in the pain clinic to improve In 2007 the project which is funded by Mundipharma Limburg pain specialists has been completed successfully
After five hospitals were certified in 2006 received at Medica 2007 in Duumlsseldorf 13 other hospitals the certificate quotCertkom qualified pain therapyquot What makes this distinction it is unlike other certification projects awarded only if they meet all operational and nonoperational departments the criteria and more than half of patients satisfied with the therapeutic care are painful To achieve this new structures were created to ensure that an effective pain management
Hospitals operating too often to make a profit
One must increasingly watch out that one doesnt come under the knife said WulfDietrich Leber hospital expert for the association of statutory insurers He said the rise in knee hip and spinal operations would seem to overstep what was medically sensible The insurers say the growth in serious operations which are not medically necessarily was... Read More
Not all ICUs need a specialist at night study
The results published in the New England Journal of Medicine counter an argument from some in the medical community that ICUs need roundtheclock intensivists doctors who specialize in critical care quotOur knee jerk reaction is to try to put intensivists in every ICU at all hours of the day and that reaction is likely a misstep because it overs... Read More