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New postings and analysis from Health Affairs, the leading journal of health policy. Health Affairs publishes new research each week online at www.healthaffairs.org. For more information, contact Chris Fleming at 301-347-3944.

Public Employee Health Benefits Have Survived Threats - So Far
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.25.w195

Generous health benefits for public employees have persisted in the face of rising health costs and tight budgets. However, the growing gap between public- and private-sector benefits, coupled with new accounting rules for government agencies, could force public officials to make far-reaching benefit changes. So says a study by Center for Studying Health System Change researchers, published April 18 as a Health Affairs Web Exclusive.


Intubation Errors Point To Systemic Flaws In Out-Of-Hospital Emergency Care
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/2/501

An error occurs almost one time in four when paramedics are called upon to insert a breathing tube into the trachea of a critically ill patient, Henry Wang and coauthors report in the March/April Health Affairs. The frequency of these errors and their persistence across all types of emergency medical services suggests the presence of systemic flaws in out-of-hospital emergency care, the authors say. They cite low Medicare reimbursement and the excessive use of EMS funding to prepare for bioterrorism as obstacles to improving care in this arena.

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Importance of Philanthropy Increasing For Non-Profit Hospitals
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/2/541

Also in the March/April Health Affairs, Jane Haderlein explains that the same competitive pressures that have turned philanthropy from a "nice to have" to a "must have" at nonprofit hospitals have also changed hospital-community relationships, raising new challenges in motivating donors. Halderlein says hospital chief executive officers are finally realizing that they have to devote significant time to the fund-raising process.


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