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Hospitals & Healthcare

• New Quality Measures, Tools from NQF
• Longer length of stay can cut readmissions
• A.M. Hospital Discharge Hard to Accomplish
• Why Hospitals Should Treat You Like a Kid

• N.Y. maker wasn't testing wipes, FDA records show
• Antibiotics May Be Enough for Appendicitis
• No link seen between painkillers, enlarged prostate
• Banned Antibiotics Found in Poultry Products

• Drug rule breaks language barrier
• Pain-Pill Crackdown Spreads

1. New Quality Measures, Tools from NQF
   The National Quality Forum has endorsed 12 new quality measures on renal care, 14 measures on perinatal care, and four additional measures on health care resource use and costs.
   Health Data Management
   
   
2. Longer length of stay can cut readmissions
   Despite initiatives to shorten length of stay, new research indicates the longer a patient is in the hospital, the risk of the patient readmitting goes down, heartwire reported.
   Fierce Healthcare
   
   
3. A.M. Hospital Discharge Hard to Accomplish
   A hospital program designed to increase the volume of patient discharges before 11 a.m. had some success, but the ultimate impact was small, a researcher reported.
   MedPage Today
   
   
4. Why Hospitals Should Treat You Like a Kid
   Imagine lying in a hospital bed, afraid, stuck repeatedly with needles to draw blood for tests you don't understand. Next to you lies another patient -- in a bed so close that each of you hears everything the other has to go through.
   ABC News
   
   

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1. N.Y. maker wasn't testing wipes, FDA records show
   One of the nation's largest makers of alcohol wipes was failing to properly test products labeled as sterile months after massive recalls of contaminated wipes shut down a Wisconsin manufacturer, according to newly released federal documents.
   The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
   
   
2. Antibiotics May Be Enough for Appendicitis
   For uncomplicated appendicitis, using antibiotics first may preclude the need to remove the appendix and reduce complications, a meta-analysis suggested.
   MedPage Today
   
   
3. No link seen between painkillers, enlarged prostate
   In contrast to some recent research, a new study finds no evidence that men who use aspirin or ibuprofen are at any lower risk of an enlarged prostate.
   Reuters
   
   
4. Banned Antibiotics Found in Poultry Products
   In a joint study, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Arizona State University found evidence suggesting that a class of antibiotics previously banned by the U.S. government for poultry production is still in use.
   Science Daily
   
   

1. Drug rule breaks language barrier
   Hoping to avoid medical mix-ups, the state will require pharmacies to provide customers with information about the drugs they're taking in their own language.
   Albany Times Union
   
   
2. Pain-Pill Crackdown Spreads
   A federal crackdown on abuse of prescription pain pills has reached the nation's biggest drugstore chain, Walgreen Co., with drug agents searching six Walgreen stores and a distribution center in Florida.
   The Wall Street Journal
   
   

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