Around 70% of front-line health workers said they were exhausted in 2020. With COVID hospitalisations expected to rise in coming weeks, the pressure is about to get a whole lot worse.
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Although stretched thin and imperfect, health care workers do our best for everyone who needs us, regardless of the personal choices people have made.
Outsourcing is common in many hospitals. But when health care systems outsource certain clinical tasks to separate companies, costs can go up, quality of care can fall and patients can be harmed.
Most nurses spoke of having to contend with family members who assumed patients should rest as much as possible.
We tried our hardest to provide the best care in dire circumstances. There wasn’t an alternative.
Hospitals have a lot of room to reduce, reuse and recycle supplies – as many were forced to discover during the pandemic.
A year after it became clear that COVID-19 was becoming a pandemic, there is still no cure, but doctors have several innovative treatments. Some are keeping patients out of the hospital entirely.
Publishing hospitalisation data is a good start. But ultimately we need information about each aged care facility’s performance to be publicly available.
The Productivity Commission this week released the health section of its Report on Government Services. But what does it tell us, and why is it important?
Rural health care will have to transform to survive.
Faced unexpected rises in COVID-19 admissions, computer models can help senior managers plan the use of hospital beds.
Eight former directors of the collapsed super-contractor face being banned for up to 15 years if they are found to be unfit to run a company.
Nurses are not heroes – they are technically expert professional carers with unique skills. And they are struggling.
We should challenge government defunding of universities, and greater reliance on private donations that can affect the transparency, equity and democracy of public institutions, including hospitals.
Dayton Children’s Hospital has begun to screen patients and their families for food insecurity, referring many of them to its ‘Food Pharm.’
This is what it’s like fighting COVID-19 the second time around.
Hospitals are losing staff to quarantines as rural COVID-19 cases rise, and administrators fear flu season will make it worse. And then there’s the politics.
A survey suggests that most Americans feel that discussions about charitable support may interfere with the relationship between doctors and their patients.
Coronavirus cases have risen sharply across the Mountain West, Midwest and plains. Over 70% of nonmetropolitan counties are now “red zones,” suggesting viral spread is out of control.
Three new studies show corticosteroids can reduce deaths in critically ill COVID-19 patients. But what about other patients?
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