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Report: Certain Drugs Cause, Exacerbate Heart Failure
New recommendations for clinicians treating heart failure patients include comprehensive medication reconciliation, evaluating risks and benefits of every medication, and discontinuing medications when possible.
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Top Pharmaceutical Company Suffers Blow After Major Drug Fails Phase III Trial
The checkpoint inhibitor nivolumab failed a Phase III trial as monotherapy in patients with previously untreated non-small cell lung cancer.
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Shoulder Trauma
MONOGRAPH: The shoulder is the most mobile joint in the human body. It's also a prime target for traumatic injury.
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Advances in Pediatric Abdominal Trauma: What’s New in Assessment and Management
This article will cover major points the provider needs to know to appropriately manage a child with potential abdominal trauma, including the acute resuscitation and specific organ injury management.
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Compliance Mentor - August 2016
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Best Practices, Investments Needed to Communicate Effectively with LEP Patients
Experts note the emergency setting is ‘a cauldron of difficulties’ when it comes to communicating effectively with limited English proficiency patients.
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Optimal Teams and Performance Feedback Drive Improvements in Processing Measures
To get staff buy-in, ED administrators note personnel should understand the reasoning behind performance initiatives.
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Tragedies Provide Learning Opportunities
With mass-casualty events on the rise, a new emergency medicine-driven task force addresses training, operations, and clinical care.
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The Night Dallas Seemed More Like Afghanistan
On the front lines of the response to another mass shooting, emergency personnel likened the hospital environment to a war zone.
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CMS Corrects New Fire Safety Requirements
CMS has published a correction to its recently updated fire safety standards for hospitals, according to the American Hospital Association.