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Pediatrics program just the beginning of safety overhaul; Duke identifies corrective plan of action for patient safety
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At Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, for example, several years of ongoing meetings with community physicians created awareness of how the facilitys ED handled transfers. It also engendered valuable interpersonal relationships among medical professionals, while the facility improved communications through centralized phone and computer transfer capabilities.
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Denver Health Medical Center is being sued by a patient who claims that two hospital workers took a photograph of his genitals while he lay unconscious in their ED last February. Could a hospital be held liable for such accusations?
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The ED at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, MN, has been able to increase the percentage of criteria blood draws from 31% to 41% one of the keys to slashing lab specimen turnaround time. But since only a specific percentage of patients meet the criteria at any given time, how is that possible?
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In 1997, the ED at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, IN, was in the 45th percentile in South Bend, IN-based Press Ganey Associates satisfaction rankings. That same year, Southern Ohio Medical Center in Portsmouth, languished in the ninth percentile.
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Chiron Corp. has initiated a new Phase II study of aldesleukin (Proleukin) interleukin-2 (IL-2) plus rituximab in rituximab-naive patients with low-grade non-Hodgkins lymphoma to determine the combinations potential in patients receiving rituximab for the first time.
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Cost-related underuse of heart meds may have adverse outcomes; Many consumers do not favor off-label drug use; Medicare extends access to self-administered drugs; Pfizer expands access to its prescription medications; Pharmacists are critical link to people with pain.
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Various food-drug interactions can result in an increase or decrease in the effectiveness of the object drug. Thats why pharmacists need to know the most potentially important food-drug interactions and the appropriate way to manage the interaction.
