How To Reduce Hospital Stays And Increase Patient Satisfaction A Loyola University Health System study has found that high-risk surgery patients experienced significantly shorter hospital stays when they were seen by general internists trained in managing medical complications in surgical patients. Patients who underwent high-risk orthopaedic surgeries experienced shorter stays when their care was co-managed by hospitalists and their surgeons. And, the study found, patients reported they were treated by doctors with more courtesy and respect.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPatients With Brain Tumors: Higher Risk Of Brain Function Decline When Whole-Brain Radiation Therapy Is Added To Standard Radiosurgery An article published Online First and in the November edition of The Lancet Oncology reviews the treatments for patients with brain tumors. The current method is stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), which is a technique for administering narrowly focused beams of irradiation to the brain in a very precise manner. This is done with or without whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT).
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