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Pipeline or wipeout? The antibiotic era is at risk; Childs play: Finding Bacillus on Barney; Prepare your facility for influenza season.
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Safety culture approach guides health systems efforts
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Therapists, nurses, and others who work with rehab patients sometimes need to give as much consideration to the patients psychosocial and neuropsychological problems as they do to the physical issues, particularly in the case of patients whove suffered a traumatic brain injury, experts advise.
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Despite ample evidence that cardiac rehabilitation services provide health benefits to people who have suffered from a heart attack or other cardiac trouble, clinicians still do not make automatic referrals to cardiac rehab programs, a recent study shows.
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End-stage renal disease is a devastating condition that, according to the United States Renal Data System, plagued approximately 406,000 individuals in the United States in 2001 and is projected to increase to a prevalence of approximately 725,000 by 2010. Furthermore, it is a major public health issue, given the overall poor outcomes and high costs for this chronic condition.
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Outpatient surgery managers are taking notice of 31 lawsuits that have been filed against nearly 300 nonprofit hospitals and the Chicago-based American Hospital Association (AHA) in federal court since June. The lawsuits claim some tax-exempt hospitals charged uninsured patients more than insured ones or that they use aggressive collection practices against low-income patients.