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News: An elderly woman with end-stage Alzheimers disease was admitted to the hospital for pneumonia. On the third day of her stay, she was given an enema containing scalding hot water, which caused first- and second-degree burns. The burns were not discovered until nine hours after the incident, and 20 hours had passed before she was given any pain medication.
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Ten percent of children treated in the emergency department (ED) may get the wrong dose of medicine or be administered medication at the incorrect frequency, according to a new study.
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In spite of heightened awareness of bioterrorism, and the recent terrorist threat to hospitals in key U.S. cities, 70% of hospital emergency depart- ment (ED) managers polled at a recent conference revealed that their hospitals are not prepared to deal with bioterrorist-related medical emergencies.
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Tenet Healthcare Corporations claim that it considers Redding, CA, physicians as independent contractors, as opposed to hospital employees, will do nothing to lessen the companys exposure from a rapidly growing list of lawsuits filed by former cardiac surgery patients at Tenets two Redding-area hospitals, according to one of the nations leading mass torts attorneys.
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Pennsylvanias hospitals continue to struggle with the medical professional liability insurance crisis, according to a new member survey conducted by The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP).
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A study at the University of Wisconsin (UW) Hospital and Clinics in Madison shows the hospital has reduced medication administration errors by 87% with the use of a hand-held wireless bar code scanner.
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Health care risk managers have suffered from an image problem for too long, and 10 simple steps can greatly improve the way everyone else in your organization thinks of you, says Geri Amori, PhD, ARM, FASHRM, president of Communicating HealthCare, a risk management consulting firm in Shelby, VT, and past president of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM).
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A Frequently Asked Questions document about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule is posted on the Department of Health and Human Services web site.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has created a Privacy Accountability Database to aid in tracking, reporting, and accounting the disclosures made from all CMS systems of records permitted by the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.