Boston Lying-in Hospital

Measurement of lying and standing blood pressure in hospital.

Measuring lying and standing blood pressure (BP) is an important clinical observation in older hospital inpatients. This is because a drop in BP on standing, known as orthostatic hypotension (OH) is common in older people and in acute illness and, therefore, in hospital patients. OH increases the risk of a fall in hospital. Simple measures such as changes in medication or rehydration can reduce...

The invention of the modern hospital: Boston, 1870–1930

suffer in order to create: hence these authors' lives of migraine, strain, nervous collapse, obsessional overwork, and resort occasionally to alcohol and narcotics but chiefly to medical drugs which they dedicated themselves to. As Professor Williams stresses, they were all "sick men", their true illness being their post-Romantic conception of the artist's role. But, second, Professor Williams ...

Boston hospital sees big impact from smoothing elective schedule.

The Children's Hospital Boston non-routine event reporting program.

Several authors have described methods to track perfusion and cardiac surgical morbidity and mortality as well as perfusion accidents. There is currently not a standard definition of a perfusion accident nor is there a standard reporting threshold for events which do not directly cause known morbidity. We propose the term non-routine events (NREs) instead of accidents, and provide a working def...

Lying and Deception Lying and Self-deception

Questions about truthfulness occur in many contexts—when parents ask their children if they are using recreational drugs, when an employer ask applicants about the reasons they left their last job, when international leaders consider each others’ threats or promises, when voters evaluate candidates’ promises, when physicians consider a patient’s complaint, when at the start of a romantic encoun...