Missing Western State Hospital patient found dead weeks after court ordered trauma therapy

A patient who had been reported missing from Western State Hospital was found dead early Monday at a construction site on the ...

Shared experience in trauma teams links directly to improved patient outcomes

A new study published in Organization Science titled "Transactive Memory Systems and Hospital Trauma Team Performance: Shared ...

Western State Hospital patient dies after trauma therapy was cut off, attorneys say

Pavel Kolchick, who had spent 18 years in state-run psychiatric hospitals, was found dead Monday morning by construction ...
Hartford Business

St. Francis hopes trauma status will boost recruitment, patient volumes

Aiming to boost physician recruiting, patient volumes and its reputation, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford said it’s earned the American College of Surgeons’ highest-level status ...
Baylor College of Medicine

Houstonians’ input on study for trauma patient who are ‘bleeding out’

Bleeding out, or the rapid loss of blood, is the most common cause of preventable death after injury. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Ben Taub Hospital, part of Harris Health System, are ...
California Healthline

Patient-Induced Trauma: Hospitals Learn To Defuse Violence

Colorful and revealing missives from the health care trenches in Sacramento and across California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. SAN DIEGO — When Mary Prehoden gets dressed for work every ...
Kaleido Scope

How to conduct trauma research with patients who cannot say yes

Next, imagine that local medical researchers are conducting a trauma research study, and your injury makes you eligible. The focus of the study is an intervention that could increase your chance of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Doctors Put a Patient in Suspended Animation for the First Time

For the first time, scientists have used therapeutic suspended animation to purposefully induce hypothermia and slow organ functions in patients with traumatic injuries, such as gunshot and stab ...
News Medical

Study shows critical role of trauma and emergency surgeons in patient satisfaction

Trauma patients and patients who need emergency surgery have little to no opportunity to get acquainted with the surgeon and team that will perform their operation. However, a large study has found ...
The Conversation

Does psychotherapy research with trauma survivors underestimate the patient-therapist relationship?

Joan Cook receives funding from the National Institute of Mental Health. When I first arrived at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center to practice psychology in 2001, my patients – mainly male Vietnam ...