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Gastric fundic gland polyps can be visually horrifying when seen on endoscopy, and they are now quite commonly present in patients taking chronic acid suppressive therapy with proton pump inhibitors.
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It has been estimated that as many as 50% of hospitalized congestive heart failure patients are malnourished.
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Recruiting 21 patients with hypertension from the cardiovascular Risk Factor Reduction Unit of the University of Saskatchewan and 23 controls, Shin and colleagues tested the hypothesis that hot-water immersion would cause greater blood pressure changes in hypertensive patients than in normotensive controls.
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Does the security rule specify how a risk analysis must be conducted?;
How should passwords be chosen to ensure security?; Can a home health
agency post thank-you letters from patients on a bulletin board that
can be seen by staff and other patients?
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Rhode Islands Seacrest DocSecurity surveyed more than 500 physicians
nationwide late in 2003, questioning them on requirements that
insurance companies ask for before underwriting physicians and
hospitals for insurance, and concluded that while physicians generally
believe they are HIPAA-compliant, in fact they have only met a portion
of the HIPAA requirements, leaving them vulnerable to lawsuits.
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American Hospital Association attorney Lawrence Hughes said there are
aspects of the privacy rule that still are not working well and are
creating unnecessary burdens for hospitals, with little benefit to
patients.
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In testimony late last year before the Department of Health and Human
Services National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
Subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality, Health Privacy Project
executive director Janlori Goldman submitted 13 common myths that
persist about the HIPAA privacy regulation and the facts that respond
to those myths.
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A woman in labor told an attending nurse that she thought the hospital and the obstetrician were not attending to her in a timely manner. The labor and delivery nurse contacted her obstetrician, but he failed to appropriately respond. The nurse should have contacted her supervisors about the womans concerns and the physicians failure to take action, but didnt. The fetus suffered severe brain damage because of a delay in delivery and subsequently died 11 months later.
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The Medical Board of California has issued a severe reprimand to a physician accused of providing inadequate pain relief to a dying man, requiring him to attend advanced training to improve his performance.
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Educating physicians about risk management issues can be difficult and time-consuming, so its tempting to let your insurer send in a speaker once in a while and leave it at that. But the risk manager at a Texas hospital says youll get better results by developing your own in-house education program for physicians.
