Patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement who are discharged early after the procedure do not fare any worse than patients who stay in the hospital longer, according to the results of ...

When hospitals implement programs to optimize patients' recovery from surgery, healthcare costs fall and patients show improved outcomes. One major benefit of the programs -- known as enhanced ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a new study, among low-risk patients who received primary PCI for STEMI, an early discharge pathway was shown ...

A strategy to send select patients home within 48 hours after undergoing primary PCI for STEMI is safe and feasible if they’re considered low risk, according to results of a new study. In fact, the ...

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine is working to reduce sepsis readmissions and improve life after sepsis for survivors with a new post-discharge care pathway. Mark Mikkelsen, MD, chief of medical ...

At Intermountain Healthcare, a Health Pathway is the framework for how we deliver evidence-based care to patients throughout the continuum. Care process models, decision support tools, care ...

A new approach to hospital discharges at UCLA reduced the time patients spent waiting to leave the hospital by nearly 50% for four common diagnoses and improved length of hospital stay by 2.5 days, ...

Pancreaticoduodenectomy, or the Whipple operation, is one of the most complex abdominal surgeries, and is commonly prescribed as a first line of therapy for cancer located within the pancreatic head.

PHILADELPHIA -- When hospitals implement programs to optimize patients' recovery from surgery, healthcare costs fall and patients show improved outcomes. One major benefit of the programs--known as ...