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One fortunate change in 25 years is that medical ethics has entered the mainstream of discussion and debate, but increased visibility can have unfortunate drawbacks, as well.
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[Editor's note: With this month's issue of Medical Ethics Advisor, we mark 25 years of efforts to bring you the most up-to-date research and news in the ethics arena of health care. Going forward, we hope to continue this tradition, and we invite you, the readers, to share your own ideas and experiences with our editorial advisory board and editor.]
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Case managers typically have concentrated on what has to happen before the patient can be discharged from the hospital, but now, to reduce readmissions, hospitals also have to take into consideration what happens to patients after they leave the acute care setting, says Beverly Cunningham, RN, MS, vice president, clinical performance improvement, Medical City Dallas Hospital, and health care consultant and partner in Case Management Concepts LLC.
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Case managers are a hospital's first line of defense when it comes to smoothing transitions of care and preventing readmissions.
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Syncope is the sudden loss of consciousness and postural tone with spontaneous recovery precipitated by cerebral dysfunction.
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Citing a fatal complacency during about the same stage of the 1957 influenza pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention is urging everyone to be vaccinated for H1N1 influenza A.
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Surgical-site infections (SSI) significantly increase the chance of hospital readmission and can cost as much as $60,000 per patient, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers who conducted the largest study of its kind to date.
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(Editor's note: In this issue of Hospital Infection Control & Prevention, we continue our focus on infection prevention advances in the surgical suite, following our report on blunt suture needles last month with this special report on a new standard care emerging for skin cleaning of the patient surgical site.)