3 results match your criteria: "Temple University Hospital-Episcopal Campus[Affiliation]"

Background: As hospital leaders work to meet national performance improvement (PI) priorities and provide high-value healthcare, aligning house staff goals with those of the hospital organization becomes necessary. A hospital leadership goal is to achieve the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Triple Aim with the delivery and measurement of high-value care through various PI frameworks, including the domains of the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), now Vizient. However, most house staff develop PI projects within their departments, and these projects do not always align with hospital priorities.

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Current concepts in diastolic heart failure.

J Am Osteopath Assoc

April 2008

Temple University Hospital-Episcopal Campus, 100 E Lehigh Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19125-1012, USA.

Heart failure is a highly prevalent condition, particularly among elderly adults and women. In diastolic heart failure-or heart failure with normal ejection fraction-left ventricular systolic function is preserved. Although diastolic heart failure is clinically and radiographically indistinguishable from systolic heart failure, echocardiography can reveal a preserved ejection fraction with abnormal diastolic function.

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Olfactory reference syndrome.

Psychosomatics

March 2008

Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Temple University Hospital-Episcopal Campus, 100 E. Lehigh Ave., Suite 105, Philadelphia, PA 19125, USA.

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