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Since the hospitalist concept was introduced several years ago, proponents have lauded its potential advantages: all-day availability, greater familiarity with the hospital environment, improved clinical expertise through greater experience, increased incentives to reduce lengths of stay, and freeing up physicians with outside practices.
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Things were a little slower than normal on Tuesday evening, March 25, in the ED at Caritas Norwood (MA) Hospital.
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An ED manager must work closely with several other departments to ensure the success of a sepsis treatment program, says Tom Sweeney, MD, FACEP, vice chair of emergency medicine at Christiana Care Health Services of Wilmington, DE.
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As the old adage goes, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." That's exactly what the ED leaders at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle did about one year ago when they noticed the rapid growth of urgent care clinics within local pharmacies.
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Unfortunately, even with the growth in hospice access as a result of the Medicare Hospice Benefit enacted in 1982, a new study shows significant gaps in access due to locations of hospice agencies.
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Electronic health records aren't new to the staff at St. John Home Health and Hospice in Tulsa, OK. However, when the agency switched from its 11-year-old software to a new program, it was not a simple process, but it was a necessary one.
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When the first psychiatric advance directives (PADs) began to appear in state legislation more than 20 years ago, they were largely considered to be an end-of-life tool, much like general advance directives. But as more states have passed PAD laws — 25 states now have laws specifically providing for PADs — their usefulness has expanded.
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Palliative care is an obligation owed every patient with critical disease, and not just those for whom curative options have been exhausted, according to a national medical society.
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According to a new analysis by the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), U.S. hospitals continue to implement palliative care programs at a rapid pace.
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