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The Quality - Cost Connection: Don't fail to communicate critical test results
It could be a routine preoperative check X-ray that shows a suspicious-looking lesion or a STAT blood test suggesting a potentially virulent infection. The test results must be communicated to the ordering physician. When critical test results are not received by the physician in a timely manner there can be tragic results. -
Patient Safety Alert Supplement
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Full April 2008 Issue in PDF
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Plasmodium knowlesi - Malaria Shared Between Man and Monkeys
Singh and colleagues used a nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to determine the geographic distribution of Plasmodium knowlesi- malaria in the human population of Malaysia. -
Countering Anthrax: Vaccines and Immunoglobulins
Anthrax in the U.S. was primarily an occupational disease of the wool textile industry in the 19th century when inhalation of aerosolized spores or cutaneous exposure was associated with industrial wool processing. -
Swimming with Little Turtles and Human Salmonellosis
On August 31, 2007 a 13-year-old girl present ed to a South Carolina emergency department with a 5-day history of bloody diarrhea, abdominal cramps fever and vomiting. She required intravenous fluids but was not hospitalized. -
Full April 2008 Issue in PDF
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Melioidosis Therapy
Melioidosis is frequently fatal, often undiagnosed, and difficult to treat. -
Pharmacology Watch: Erythropoietin and Cancer Death Rates
In this issue: Does erythropoietin worsen cancer death rates? Most hypothyroid patients can be replaced with levothyroxine alone without additional T3. Does aggressive control in type 2 diabetes save lives? -
Full March 31, 2008 Issue in PDF