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Have people with HTN reduced salt intake?; The P450 system and CV outcomes with clopidogrel; Risk assessment for bleeding during warfarin therapy; Coenzyme Q10 for Peyronie's disease; Impact of using A1c to diagnose pre-diabetes; Should tiotropium be a maintenance asthma medication?
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Involve physicians in the development and implementation of alert systems, rather than simply training them in the systems when you're ready to go live, says Linda Peitzman, MD, chief medical officer of Wolters Kluwer Health in Indianapolis.
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Alert fatigue can lead to behaviors in health care that might seem fine until the day they cause a tragedy, says John Banja, PhD, assistant director for health sciences and clinical ethics at Emory University in Atlanta.
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The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center uses a variety of interventions to help patients stop or reduce smoking before elective surgery.
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A just-released study showing that smokers have significantly more complications post-surgery than non-smokers, including a higher death rate, coupled with new Medicare reimbursement for physicians who provide counseling to prevent tobacco use for outpatients and hospitalized patients have outpatient surgery managers taking a new look at smoking cessation programs.
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Despite significant attention to wrong-site and wrong-patient procedures, including The Joint Commission's "Universal Protocol" and checklists developed at prestigious institutions, a new study reports "a persisting high frequency of surgical 'never events.'"