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Three white papers on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements on risk analysis and employer issues related to security implementation are available from the Reston, VA-based Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI).
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Same-day surgery managers who want to see how their compliance with the national patient safety goals from the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations compares to compliance of all organizations that have undergone surveys can check out the results on the Joint Commission web site.
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The Harrisburg-based Pennsylvania Department of Health has announced a move that has gotten the attention of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) nationwide: Surgery centers in that state no longer can perform some laparoscopic procedures, such as laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
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Answers to your questions about job responsibility. Licensure requirements, room turnover, locker room space, and post-op phone call issues are addressed.
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Surgical Events, Product or Device Events, Patient Protection Events, Care Management Events, Environmental Events, and Criminal Events.
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Although pediatric cardiac diseases infrequently are seen in the emergency department (ED), early diagnosis and aggressive management is critical. Most importantly, the clinician must include these diseases in their differential and have a thorough understanding of typical and atypical presentations for congenital heart disease, dysrhythmias, myocarditis and pericarditis. Any child who has a clinical presentation suggestive of cardiac disease, must receive appropriate diagnostic testing and timely referral to optimize the childs outcome. The authors provide a thorough, focused review of the most commonly encountered cardiac diseases in the ED and key aspects to stabilization.
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Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia must be considered in patients with asthma-like symptoms and significant eosinophilia, who have resided in areas endemic for lymphatic filariasis.
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A retrospective review of 1387 cases of salmonellosis revealed that almost half of cases in children younger than 5 years of age were associated with reptilecontact.
