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Items tagged as "safety"
Mayo Clinic a ‘Top Hospital’ for Safety
Mayo Clinic is being recognized as one of the top hospitals in the nation by The Leapfrog Group, an independent, national nonprofit organization run by employers and other large purchasers of health benefits. Only 92 U.S. hospitals are on the 2012 Top Hospitals list, and three were named from Mayo Clinic: Mayo Clinic [...]
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Saving Lives by Reducing Surgical Site Infections
Mayo Clinic and six other U.S. health care systems avoided approximately 135 surgical site infections and saved more than $3.7 million dollars through an improvement project directed by the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare in collaboration with the American College of Surgeons. Surgical site infections (SSIs) are a major cause [...]
Created by Dana Sparks Safety Tips During Hunting Season
Gunshot wounds are an obvious health risk during hunting season, but there are other dangerous accidents that can send hunters to the hospital or worse. Emergency medicine physician Eric Grube, D.O., of the Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse, Wis., is a hunter himself and says he tries to [...]
Created by Dana Sparks New Road Rules to Improve Truck Drivers' Health
Medical examinations for many commerical drivers will only be legitimate if they're performed by specially trained and certifiied health care providers. The new federal guidelines are aimed at helping prevent medical-emergency-related truck and bus crashes. Clayton Cowl, M.D., a Mayo Clinic physician in Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, says, “Often, the medical evaluation is [...]
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