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A true test of the success of a process improvement initiative is whether the results can be sustained, and the ED at Hudson Valley Hospital Center in Cortlandt Manor, NY, has just celebrated the fifth anniversary of its "no wait" process.
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Here's a radical idea: Instead of trying to show management why your department is worthy of respect, go on the offensive and declare that risk management is a profit center every bit as much as that shiny new cardiac center or the plastic surgery clinic.
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Spironolactone may save the day with resistant hypertension, Fish oils: Where's the beef?, Gait speed and survival in older adults, Rifaximin for IBS without constipation, Pre-exposure HIV prophylaxis for men who have sex with men, Treating venous thromboembolism with rivaroxaban,
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Add new information in your counseling dialogue regarding the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil.
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Can same pre-exposure prophylaxis results be recreated in real life?
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Among the seemingly countless provisions in the March 2010 health reform law is one that greatly simplifies the process by which a state may extend Medicaid eligibility for family planning services and supplies to individuals ineligible for comprehensive health coverage under the program.
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"Clinicians at my family planning facility often refuse to give a birth control method if the patient is late for her annual exam," says a respondent to the 2010 Contraceptive Technology Update Contraception Survey.
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Clinicians now have the latest guidance in managing patients who have, or are at risk for, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) with the just-released 2010 STD Treatment Guidelines.