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Web-based ethics consult serves as best practice
Hospital ethics boards seeking a solution for efficiently and effectively documenting and assessing ethics consultation work could find a best practice in the ethics consultation web (ECWeb) program developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Washington, DC, experts say. -
Family assessment tool expands ethics consults
Hospitals might improve their ethics consultation processes if they design and use a brief ethics family assessment tool to determine families' and patients' values, two ethicists say. -
Conducting donation after cardiac death
Hospital ethics committees sometimes are called to handle cases involving donation after cardiac death (DCD), but handling these cases can be a challenge, an expert says. -
Revised consultation guidelines offer models for improving quality
Hospital ethics boards now can refer to national guidelines when developing procedural standards and processes for evaluating quality of ethics consultations (EC) and institutional EC processes. -
Guideline for intensive insulin therapy
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Pharmacology Watch - Full April 2011 Issue in PDF
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FDA actions
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Fidaxomicin for C. difficile infections
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Dabigatran for stroke in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation
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Abstract & Commentary: A Risk Factor for Hospital-Acquired Infections: Hand Contamination by Anesthesia Providers
In a prior study, investigators at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center linked intraoperative contamination of patients' IV stopcocks with an increase in patient mortality.