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Why the sudden solicitude for employees' well-being? You can probably guess. Health-benefit costs have shot up 31% in the past five years, Towers Perrin notes, with no end in sight. A huge and growing component of those costs: chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes that often stem...
The issue is whether their presence, dizzy with exhaustion, on the hospital floor is a help or a hazard. An oft cited 2004 study of intensive-care units found that medical residents made 36% more serious mistakes during 30-hour shifts than during shifts half as long. So the simple...
There has been much hand-wringing over the dangers of medical residents' grueling schedules. Doctors-in-training often forgo sleep entirely, racking up as many as 30 work hours in a single stretch. The term resident is in fact no accident, says Dr. Teryl Nuckols, an internist and assistant professor...
Instituting the measures could be a boon for society, however, potentially reducing the overall price of errors - e.g., subsequent hospital visits, extra posttreatment care and lost wages - to almost negligible levels, but only if the new policies can decrease the rate of preventable errors at least 11.3%, according to the...
As a result, Congress is looking into solutions like health-care-coverage premium subsidies for lower-income Americans. But that still won't address the out-of-control health-care costs in areas like South Florida. This month Medicare chose Miami as one of 14 cities to take part in...