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Drug Diverters May Show No Signs of Addiction
Somewhat surprisingly, drug diverters in healthcare settings are not easy to spot by outward mannerisms.
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Liability Claims Bigger Than Ever, But Less Frequent
Despite efforts by hospitals to mitigate when patients litigate, hospital liability claims keep climbing.
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ED Patient Satisfaction Unaffected by Opioid Prescribing
How often do you think about patient satisfaction surveys when you make the decision about prescribing opioids to a patient?
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New Tool Helps Physicians, Families Plan End-of-Life Care
It’s the question many physicians dread: How long will a patient live? A new checklist may provide an answer.
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Be Quick on the Trigger with Epinephrine to Treat Anaphylaxis
If a patient presents with symptoms of a severe allergic reaction, shoot epinephrine first and ask questions later.
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HHS Will Emphasize Quality, Not Quantity, in Future Medicare Payments
Is Medicare’s latest push just another pie-in-the-sky initiative? Or a genuine step toward progress?
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CDC: Thousands of patients put at risk by outbreaks caused by drug diverters in healthcare
Drug diversion by health care workers is gaining recognition as a ubiquitous and poorly controlled patient safety risk.
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CDC panel cites lack of evidence for Tdap booster
Health care workers who receive the pertussis vaccine do not need additional boosters, a federal advisory panel decided.
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Hospital’s Wellness Program Cuts Costs by More than $5 Million
At the place where employee health and hospital benefits and wellness programs intersect, some striking results can be achieved.
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New Hampshire hospital uses healthy worksite kit, reports ‘more input from all levels of the hospital — the front line, management, finance.’
A Rochester, NH hospital was among the first to implement a healthy workplace program based on the toolkit provided online by the Center for Promotion of Health in the New England Workforce, which is part of the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the University of Connecticut.