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Give to UCSFThe net clinical benefit of anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation decreases with age.
While long-term acute care hospitals are designed to help patients recover and regain independence, fewer than 1-in-5 older adults who were transferred to such facilities were alive five years later.
Increasing medications for blood pressure when discharging older patients from the hospital may pose a greater risk of falls, fainting and acute kidney injury that outweighs the potential benefits.
Raphael Hirsch comes to UCSF from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, where he served as chair of the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics.
An international expert shares how palliative care can improve the quality of life for people with serious illnesses.
UCSF researchers and nurses are leading efforts to create bedside monitors that both eliminate the unnecessary signals responsible for alarm fatigue and predict life-threatening events before they occur.
The amount of radiation that patients are exposed to from CT scans varies widely between institutions and countries, and is largely due to differences in the technical settings of the scanning machines.
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland has been awarded a “2018 Top Hospitals” award by The Leapfrog Group, placing it among an elite group of hospitals that have achieved the highest levels of quality and safety.
A new spinal cord injury protocol, based on research by UCSF scientists, is a mixture of revised evaluations and new treatments to personalize care. It has spurred quicker recoveries for patients.
Fears of insensitive questioning, withdrawal from hormone treatment and the use of a patient’s legal name, rather than chosen name, may drive many transgender people away from acute care facilities, including emergency departments, urgent care and inpatient treatment, according to an analysis by UCSF doctors.
Over the past three years, UCSF Health has seen patient satisfaction ratings climb, while negative safety incidents and overall costs have continually decreased.