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By
Avery Comarow
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Health - October 20, 2009
Nursing, pain relief, and whether they would recommend the hospital to others are among the questions.
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These Best Hospitals Are Best at Satisfying Patients
By
Avery Comarow
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Megan Johnson
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Health - October 20, 2009
Of 154 centers that U.S. News ranked in America’s Best Hospitals, patients surveyed liked these most.
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Which Best Hospitals Are Best (and Worst) at Pain Management
By
Avery Comarow
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Megan Johnson
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Health - October 20, 2009
It's no surprise that all facilities aren't equal at keeping pain under control.
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Which Best Hospitals Have Great (and Not So Great) Nurses
By
Avery Comarow
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Megan Johnson
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Health - October 20, 2009
Patient satisfaction surveys weigh responses to requests, courtesy, and more.
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They May Excel, But They're the Worst Hospitals for Patient Satisfaction
By
Avery Comarow
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Megan Johnson
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Health - October 20, 2009
Patients surveyed give these hospitals, some of America’s best, a poor score overall.
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Why People Leave the Hospital Against Medical Advice
By
January W. Payne
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Health - August 27, 2009
Cost is one big reason, but there may be a bigger price to pay.
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Health Buzz: America’s Best Hospitals
By
Megan Johnson
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Health - July 17, 2009
Annual rankings in 16 specialties help guide you to find the best care.
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America's Best Hospitals Rankings: Definitions
By
Avery Comarow
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Health - July 15, 2009
The meaning of reputation, patient safety index, and other factors that weighed into the rankings
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The High-Tech Hospital of the Future
By
Michelle Andrews
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Health - July 15, 2009
Technology of all kinds is transforming the way medical systems work.
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America's Best Hospitals: the 2009–10 Honor Roll
By
Avery Comarow
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Health - July 15, 2009
They're the best of the best—the 0.4 percent of all hospitals with high scores in 6 or more specialties
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America's Best Hospitals: Here's How We Selected Them
By
Avery Comarow
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Health - July 15, 2009
Deaths, reputation, and patient safety were among the factors the rankings took into account.
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Getting Medical Advice on the Web from Other Patients
By
Nancy Shute
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Health - July 13, 2009
Patients swap personal stories, offer help, and share studies at "crowd-sourced" disease sites.
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Cost of Medicine: Are High-Tech Medical Devices and Treatments Always Worth It?
By
Katherine Hobson
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Health - July 10, 2009
Many expensive medical tools are valuable but arguably overused.
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A New Tool Appears for Rating Hospitals
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Avery Comarow
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Comarow On Quality - December 17, 2008
It's great—if you want to compare hospitals in umpteen ways that have limited value.
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U.S. News's 'Best Hospitals' Clashes With Other Ratings. Is That Bad?
By
Avery Comarow
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Comarow On Quality - November 14, 2008
Different ways of looking at hospitals yield different results.
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Health Buzz: A $500 million Antismoking Campaign and Other Health News
Health - July 24, 2008
More statins news, the Wii loses to real athletics, and a move to better judge psychiatric hospitals
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America's Best Hospitals, Green Edition
By
Maura Judkis
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Fresh Greens - July 16, 2008
The healthcare industry is looking to reduce its footprint.
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Your 'Best Hospitals' Questions Answered
By
Avery Comarow
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Comarow On Quality - July 15, 2008
The new rankings are drawing comments, many of them from hospital patients.
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Health Buzz: America's Best Hospitals and Other Health News
Health - July 11, 2008
Autism Genes, a rise of skin cancer cases, suicide warnings for epilepsy drugs, and new stents
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America's Best Hospitals
By
Sarah Baldauf
and
Lindsay Lyon
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Health - July 10, 2008
Five days at an Honor Roll medical center
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Best Hospitals Honor Roll 2008
Health - July 10, 2008
U.S. News analyzed data on 5,453 medical centers to produce this year's 16 specialty rankings.
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New Hospital Rankings From 'U.S. News'
By
Avery Comarow
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Comarow On Quality - July 10, 2008
Besides finding out who is best, dig up data on your local center—more than 1,500 are listed.
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It's Just Their Hometown Hospital
By
Sarah Baldauf
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Health - July 10, 2008
Most Vanderbilt patients aren't tough cases from far away.
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Great Medicine Needs Committed Patients
By
Bernadine Healy, M.D.
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Health - July 10, 2008
There's no pill or procedure to make physical rehabilitation happen on its own.
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