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Just about a year ago, the Privacy Rule, which is a part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations, became enforceable. Already, complaints are coming in and investigations are being launched some against mighty organizations such as Kaiser Permanente.
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Federal laws aimed at encouraging drug companies to study how well their products work in children have had the unintended consequence of weakening already vague protections that prevent child research subjects from being exploited, a leading human subjects research advocate claims.
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On-line university offers controversial course.
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When Christiana Hospital in Newark, DE, first instituted its hospitalist program in 1994, the hospital experienced a big drop in length of stay, especially with the uninsured patients who had no particular physician watching over them, recalls Thomas Mannis, MD, senior medical advisor for case management and head of the division of hospitalists.
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At Medical City Dallas Hospital, there is a healthy competition between two hospitalist groups who compare their outcomes with those of the other group and all the physicians in the hospital, says Beverly Cunningham, MS, RN, director of case management.
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Its a frequent tactic of physicians: claiming that quality data are imperfect, invalid, or otherwise misleading.
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Winning physician buy-in, one of the toughest challenges in any process improvement (PI) endeavor, was the key to success in a PI project undertaken by Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, MD.
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This is the first in a two-part series on high-alert medications in the ED. This month, we give specific practice changes to avoid errors.
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Do you want to increase satisfaction scores, improve patient care, and boost staff retention all in one shot? Consider switching to a team model of nursing.
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An elderly woman presents with a chief complaint of constipation, with few symptoms of acute abdomen. Would you suspect appendicitis in this patient?
