Acute Care
The message is clear: Nurses and physicians should treat asymptomatic patients as carefully as symptomatic patients.
Microscopic changes in the transmission rate trigger macroscopic jumps in the expected epidemic size, research found.
The COVID-19 virus may be at least as transmissible as SARS; WHO officials cautioned it's too early to tell if the spread will keep slowing.
WHO stopped short of calling the COVID-19 coronavirus a pandemic, saying much of its spread is still localized to China.
Blueprint includes cuts for care in hospital outpatient departments, teaching hospitals and post-acute care providers, AHA says.
The U.S. has its first case of infection by human-to-human contact, CDC has confirmed.
Five patients have been identified in this country, with all having traveled from Wuhan, China, where the disease originated.
There was a 2% drop in ICU deaths at non-minority hospitals, but the same improvement rate was not seen at minority-serving hospitals.
Dignity Health-GoHealth Urgent Care's network of 14 locations will extend to San Francisco, San Mateo, Marin and Alameda counties.
The tool, Patient Unified Lookup System, enabled volunteers to access patient information and and deliver quality care, especially crucial medications.