Volume 22
Number 11
Dec. 1998
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| More than a dozen oncology physicians and nurses experienced a mobile virtual-reality simulator parked in front of Stanford Hospital and Clinics on Nov. 13. Some 36 physicians and nurses maneuvered through a virtual home, using foot and hand controls. The experience was designed to simulate obstacles and resitance to evoke the fatigue and resulting frustration experienced by many cancer patients undergoing treatment. Stanford was the simulator's only Northern California stop on a nationwide tour, sponsored by Ortho Biotech Inc. |
 COLUMNS Chief of Staff NEWS Pharmacy earns highest ratings Merger results in $38 million in first-year savings Service workers vote for union representation Program available for neurodevelopmental disorders Staying ahead of the Y2K curve offers added clinical benefits New combination therapies recommended by Stanford-led stroke
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Pharmacy Earns Highest
Ratings Key health care professionals gave Stanford Hospital and Clinics' pharmacy services the highest rating overall among 36 teaching hospitals surveyed nationwide. The study, conducted by the University HealthSystem
Consortium (UHC), was designed to measure the satisfaction of key participants -
pharmacists, nurses and physicians - with the inpatient medication process. |
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STANFORD FINANCIALS Merger results in $38 million in first-year savings During the first year of the merger, the four hospitals of UCSF Stanford Health Care treated more than 58,000 patients, a nearly 6 percent increase over the previous year, UCSF Stanford officials announced in November. At Stanford Hospital and Clinics alone, inpatient
admissions between September 1997 and August 1998 totaled 21,597, up from 20,357 the
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