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Protecting yourself from a needlestick injury, evaluating safety devices, and complying with state and federal regulations. Youll find resources to help you achieve these three important goals at the Exposure Prevention Information Network web site.
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Excerpt of Washington State Recommended Guidelines, Sexual Assault Emergency Medical Evaluation, Adult and Adolescent, Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress, Seattle.
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Two studies have demonstrated a close link between documentation of traumatic injuries and eventual convictions.
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When a 7-year-old boy presented with right-sided abdominal pain, no rebound tenderness was noted, the abdominal flat plate was negative, white blood count was normal, and there was no left shift and no vomiting or bowel changes.
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In our relentless pursuit of new technology and better and ever more effective drug therapies, we can sometimes overlook the fact that some basic truths of healing still apply. One of those truths may be the efficacy of continuous low-level heat therapy for back pain and other musculoskeletal discomfort.
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In the wake of its ill-fated ergonomics rule, the U.S. Occupational Health & Safety Administration decided, instead, to draft a series of ergonomic guidelines for specific industries. Significantly,
the first of these drafts to be published deals with health care workers those in nursing homes.
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Demand for beds expected to increase; Final OPPS rule increases spending; Emergency care crisis indicated by AZ survey; HHS issues final report on regulatory reform; CMS proposes tracking hospital referrals to HHAs.
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How to establish and maintain a high standard of care, promote consistency across 18 diverse health care facilities, and develop a culture of quality throughout the system was the challenge that confronted the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System (NS-LIJHS) in Great Neck, NY.
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Notifying patients of their privacy rights under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is one of the tasks that fall most squarely onto the shoulders of access management.
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Another initiative at St. Louis-based SSM Health Care (SSMHC) that helps improve outcomes and engender physician buy-in is the Clinical Collaborative process.