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Contraceptive Implant Can Lead to Weight Gain, But It Is Not Medically Concerning
Clinicians providing contraceptive counseling should be aware of recent research showing that young people can experience weight gain when using hormonal implants, when compared with young people using some other types of contraceptives.
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California’s Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Show Promise
When California was faced with unacceptably high rates of maternal deaths and disparities among minority patients, the state formed a collaborative to tackle this problem and find solutions.
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How Are Maternal Deaths Counted and Investigated?
Determining a city, state, or country’s maternal mortality rate is challenging and can be a controversial process. It depends on the time frame measured, whether maternal deaths are considered only if there are biomedical causes, or when there are factors related to pregnancy, such as suicides and homicides that would have not occurred if the person had not had a pregnancy.
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Some States Upend Maternal Mortality Committees and Investigations
Maternal mortality review committees are facing changes that could affect how maternal deaths are investigated and reported. This could lead to fewer initiatives to lower maternal mortality and morbidity rates and also mask could increases in abortion-ban states.
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Mechanical Thrombectomy for Stroke
Stroke remains a global health crisis, affecting up to one in five individuals in high-income countries and nearly one in two individuals in low-income regions, making it the second leading cause of death worldwide. Advances in endovascular thrombectomy, including mechanical thrombectomy (MT), have revolutionized the management of acute ischemic stroke, offering significant reductions in patient disability and mortality rates.
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Lawsuit Claims Hospital Kept Patient Alive to Boost Metrics
A New Jersey hospital and a medical team are facing a medical malpractice lawsuit from the family of a man who says they kept the brain-damaged patient alive for a year to boost the hospital’s metric on survival after heart transplant.
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Profits Before Patients, Betrayal of Trust
The facts of the medical care that supposedly led to a New Jersey patient named Darryl Young’s brain damage and death are still to be determined, but the hospital’s behavior after the transplant was “outrageous.”
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Hospital Reduces Patient Falls by 80%
AdventHealth in Tampa Bay, FL, successfully reduced patient falls by 80% through predictive modeling, enhanced education, and a strong culture of continuous improvement and zero harm. The risk manager says other hospitals can learn from the experience and implement strategies to seek the same results.
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TJC Issues Sentinel Event Alert on Responding to Severe Weather Incidents
On the heels of recent hurricanes and other severe weather, The Joint Commission has issued a Sentinel Event Alert, “Environmental disasters: Preparing to safely evacuate or shelter in place.” The alert outlines steps for healthcare organizations to consider as they prepare for weather and climate-related disasters, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, floods, and extreme heat.
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HHS Drops Appeal on Website Tracking, but Some of Rule Still Applies
Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced that it will not appeal its unfavorable court decision in American Hospital Association v. Becerra, in which the American Hospital Association and other groups sued HHS to bar enforcement of a new rule adopted in guidance by the Office for Civil Rights titled “Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA-Covered Entities and Business Associates.”