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Interatrial Shunt Device for Heart Failure Disappoints
Placement of an interatrial shunt device in patients with heart failure with preserved or mildly reduced ejection fraction did not lower the rate of heart failure events or improve health status.
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Managing Migraine in the Emergency Department
When a patient with a self-identified migraine presents to the emergency department, the emergency physician is tasked with sorting through the history to ensure that the diagnosis is correct, to reasonably exclude other causes of an acute headache, initiate treatment, assess the response, and make an appropriate disposition for the patient, with referral to primary care or specialists as needed. This article will focus on the acute treatment of migraines in the emergency department.
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Legal Ruling Triggers Changes to No Surprises Act
U.S. District Court invalidated the independent dispute resolution process.
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Long-Term Care Facilities Cut Superfluous Antibiotic Use
Locations that adhered to federal safety program reported more success in this area.
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HCW Injuries, Illness Off the Charts in 2020
Healthcare workers in the United State experienced a more than twofold increase in injury and illness rates in 2020, the first year of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. -
Vaccine Expert: SARS-CoV-2 Is Becoming Endemic
Make of it what you will in an unpredictable pandemic, but one of the nation’s leading vaccine and immunology experts sees COVID-19 fading to a somewhat undefined endemic level and then returning as a seasonal virus next winter. -
Racism and Nursing: ‘We Need to Examine Our Hearts and Motives’
A researcher recently wrote an introduction and overview for a nursing journal’s special issue on racism and nursing. She recalled an incident about a decade ago when a peer reviewer objected to an article she authored because it used the word “racism.” She discusses this and more in a Q&A. -
Violence Against HCWs Increased During Pandemic
In one of the few studies of its kind, researchers at the Mayo Clinic reported violent incidents against healthcare workers have more than doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
It Is Not the Canary — It Is the Coal Mine
Too often, healthcare workers facing a panoply of mental maladies — burnout, trauma, moral injury — are expected to muster up resilience enough to overcome what is essentially a systems problem. The answer is to fix the coal mine, not build stronger canaries, an expert says. -
Recommendations Target Making Improvements in U.S. Organ Transplant System
The authors aimed for equity, transparency, and efficiency.