News & Numbers

October 27 2011 20111027

Heart Disease, Cancer and Trauma-Related Disorders Among the Most Costly Conditions for Men

Other News & Events

• Best strategies to treat traumatic brain injury patients are unclear
• Heart disease, cancer, and trauma-related disorders among the most costly conditions for men
• Helicopter transport to trauma centers improves patient survival over ambulance transport
• Hospital-acquired infections dramatically increase trauma patients' risk of in-hospital death and hospital stay
• Hospitals vary greatly in the quality of their trauma care
• ICU scoring system better predicts the risk of death for trauma patients
• Intravenous fentanyl can be given safely to trauma patients for pain in the prehospital setting
• Leapfrog survey may not accurately report use of safe practices in trauma centers
• New comparative effectiveness review released on traumatic brain injury and depression
• New rule on when to have a trauma surgeon meet a transported trauma patient is found more sensitive than existing criteria
• State Medicaid Policy Changes Increasingly Driven by Evidence
• Trauma associated with mental health disorders but not substance abuse in homeless men
• Trauma care costs less at hospitals with lower mortality rates
• Trauma centers vary in screening for deep vein thrombosis
• Trauma patients are more likely to die after a major complication in high-mortality hospitals
• Trauma patients often receive repeat CT imaging that increases radiation exposure and costs
• Trauma patients with hospital-acquired infections have poor outcomes, including increased mortality risk
• Trauma triage system tends to overestimate injury severity
• Venous thromboembolism is rare in young trauma patients, but a better understanding of its risk factors is needed