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If a devastating medical error occurred at your organization, would all the involved parties feel free to discuss the circumstances candidly and openly? Too often, the answer is no, and with good reason, says Jeffrey Driver, chief risk officer and director of the risk management department at Stanford (CA) Hospital & Clinics and presi-dent of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management.
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If an obviously upset patient told a nurse that
he thought he remembered his surgery taking place, would appropriate steps be taken, or would the patients complaint be dismissed or ignored?
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Nearly 70% of patients achieving a CR after primary therapy eventually recurred. Most recurrences occurred more than 6 months from completion of primary chemotherapy, and the use of second line agents at the time of recurrence was effective.
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The technique of ductal lavage was examined in women who immediately thereafter underwent mastectomy for breast cancer. A physiologic solution was injected into cannulated breast ducts and then aspirated and examined for atypical or frankly malignant cells.
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The presence of lung metastases as the first site of relapse and a negative hormone receptor status are predictive for the occurrence of brain metastases in patients with metastatic breast cancer. A prophylactic treatment should be evaluated in these subsets of patients.
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Patients without insurance have been reported to have less satisfactory health outcomes, and this has been attributed to a number of factors including access to health care and a greater burden of comorbid conditions. In the current retrospective analysis, short-term outcomes including surgical complications and in-hospital mortality were greater for uninsured or Medicaid recipient colorectal cancer patients (aged, 40-64 years) compared with those with private insurance.
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