A brief counseling session or computerized intervention with teens who show up at the emergency room could help them avoid future alcohol use and violence. …
Category: Patient care
Tennis star Ana Ivanovic visits Packard Children's
Ana Ivanovic, the feisty Serb who's fighting her way up the brackets at the Bank of the West Classic, paid a visit to patients at …
Stanford pediatrician blends medicine and politics to improve children's health
A few weeks ago I discussed the work of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital pediatrician Paul Wise, MD, MPH, who frequently travels to Guatemala to provide …
Surgery through natural orifices: some pros and cons
Ever since I assigned writer Sara Wykes to do a story on natural orifice surgery for the latest Stanford Medicine magazine, I've continued to come …
Neonatologist celebrates 50 years of preemie care
When I wrote a magazine piece on the evolution of children's hospitals a few years back, numerous people here said the one person I had …
Annual federal statistics on children's well-being released
The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics today released annual figures on the well-being of America's children. Among the findings presented in the …
Study: IUDs are a good contraceptive option for teens
Very few sexually active teenagers (around 1 percent, according to the National Survey of Family Growth) choose the intrauterine device for birth control. (Among the …
Excessive TV or computer use might (literally) be painful
The long hours spent by teens watching TV, browsing the web or playing video games is often blamed for rising obesity rates among young adults, …
Home can be a toxic playground for babies
Ugh. As a mom of an almost-one-year-old who constantly zips around the house, that was my reaction to a USA Today article on babies' exposures …
Emergency room as soup kitchen
During the debate over health-care reform, we heard a lot about emergency rooms jammed with people who couldn't afford to go to a doctor. Today, …
Moms who were born prematurely more likely to have premature babies themselves
According to new research appearing in Obstetrics & Gynecology, women who were born prematurely face an increased risk of going into preterm labor themselves. Strollerderby's …
Ambulance drivers: slow down, it won't hurt
Faster emergency transport doesn't improve the survival rates of serious trauma patients; in fact, it probably kills more patients and emergency workers, as Slate magazine reports.
Faster emergency transport doesn't improve the survival rates of serious trauma patients; in fact, it probably kills more patients and emergency workers, as Slate magazine reports.
Study shows electronic system to communicate medical orders may save lives
Implementing a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system can significantly decrease hospital-wide mortality rates, according to a Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Stanford University School …
King of Kong, MD: Plastic surgeon breaks Donkey Kong world-record
In case you missed the news, the world record for highest score achieved on the classic arcade game Donkey Kong has been broken. New York-based …
Word docs: New phrases for the emergency room
There's some fun for wordsmiths over at The Central Line, the blog of the American College of Emergency Physicians. They've posted medical-centric neologisms, such as: …
Windows ER?
A team of Microsoft researchers is exploring ways to use electronic displays to help keep patients in the loop about their own care. They recently developed and evaluated a cut-and-paste prototype for a personalized patient information display inside patient rooms in the emergency department of a Washington, D.C.-area hospital. The team will present their results on April 15 at this year's Computer-Human Interface conference in Atlanta.
A team of Microsoft researchers is exploring ways to use electronic displays to help keep patients in the loop about their own care. They recently developed and evaluated a cut-and-paste prototype for a personalized patient information display inside patient rooms in the emergency department of a Washington, D.C.-area hospital. The team will present their results on April 15 at this year's Computer-Human Interface conference in Atlanta.