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...doctors say that certain aspects of care can't be assessed without input from the patient: treatment of pain, for instance. (About a third of HCAHPS surveyed patients said their pain was not always treated adequately.) Doctors also want to make sure that patient-doctor communication is up to par. Patients who fully understand care instructions when they leave the hospital, for example, are more likely to stay out of the emergency room down the line. In total, the HCAHPS survey asked 27 questions about patients' demographic characteristics and eight areas of patient perceptions: communication with doctors, communication with nurses...
...Gutshall Invitational at Lehigh University. In the final tournament of the fall season, the Crimson, the only Ivy League school at the eight-team tournament, saw strong performances from young players despite miserable conditions on day one. Play was suspended on day one after thunderstorms rolled in over the par-72 Bethlehem course and continued into the night. “The course was an absolutely phenomenal course and well maintained,” Pollak said. “The greens were running very fast and it was clear from the practice round the greens were going...
...alternative for those financially or emotionally unable to cope with newborns, never defined the word child--prompting some out-of-state parents to drive to Nebraska to take advantage of the oversight. The law will now apply only to babies 3 days old or younger, putting it on a par with safe-haven laws in other states...
...picks you’ll realize that they’re really not.As for the rest of the conference, its best team (Harvard) gets equal billing with one of its worst (Princeton). Yale, which has had some odd losses but is still probably a top-three program, is on par with Cornell, which has showed its true colors of late with a pair of consecutive blowout losses after starting 3-0. Finally, and worst of all, first place is shared by a Brown team—that was pounded, 37-13, by a currently 2-6 Rhode Island team...
...forerunner in creating environmental politics classes at a number of leading universities. The professor opened her presentation with a video of Republican luminaries leading chants of “Drill, baby, drill,” calling it an “iconic moment” in this election on par with Christopher Reeve’s 1996 appearance at the Democratic National Convention in favor of stem-cell research. She also provided her audience with a brief overview of where the Democrats and Republicans stand on environmental policy, highlighting key differences and the importance of developing new technologies...