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The risk of giving advice to patients by phone should be well known to risk managers, and most have educated staff about what not to say to patients with questions. Add in the automated answering systems that urge patients to call 911 for emergencies, and you should be well covered in this area, right? Not necessarily.
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A closely watched case in Connecticut has some observers worried that health care providers will be discouraged from reporting information about physicians to state boards, other monitoring groups, and even a hospitals internal peer review system.
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Liability waivers are best used for voluntary activities or when patients refuse your clinicians advice, says Jeffrey Driver, JD, MBA, chief risk officer with Stanford (CA) University Medical Center and president of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management in Chicago. He suggests these categories.
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Youre fed up with being dragged into every lawsuit that has even the slightest connection to your institution, so you daydream about having patients just sign a waiver up front promising to never sue you for anything. Nice fantasy, but those things dont really hold up in court, do they?
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Breast Cancer and the Use of Statins; Warnings Issued for IBS Drugs; FDA Actions.
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With the muscle of an international cooperative group research network and expanded collaboration, confirmatory trials have been increasingly contemporaneously launched or provided important data in a timely fashion to help solidify important issues in the care of our patients.
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The use of CEE conferred protection against fracture without an increase in breast cancer but with an increased risk of hypertension, stroke, and venous thromboembolism.
