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Thirteen states and the District of Columbia will get more than $547 million in grants over five years to build Medicaid long-term care programs that will help keep people at home and out of institutions.
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The patient's eating habits before surgery play an important role in the choice of the operative technique used.
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This study presents four cases, and offers recommendations should this unusual congenital defect be discovered at the time of laparoscopic gastric bypass.
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Just 14 weeks after The Joint Commission approved an interim action that allowed pharmacists to retrospectively review ED medication orders to comply with element of performance (EP) 1 for standard 4.10 of medication management, the action was suspended.
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It's not uncommon for hospitals to receive requirements for improvements (RFIs) after a Joint Commission survey. What is surprising is that in May, Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital chose to share this information publicly — not just its accreditation status, but its complete survey results.
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An adult patient arrives at the ED in the middle of the night with a presenting complaint of head trauma of unknown origin, and associated pain and dizziness.
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The quality and safety of stroke care in U.S. hospitals can be vastly improved if risk managers first understand how patients may be injured as a result of medical mishaps, according the experience of Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY.
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Hospitals may become more liable to infection-related lawsuits as patients gain greater access to information and expect higher standards of care to prevent infections once considered inevitable, a legal scholar warns.
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If your ED has been struggling with The Joint Commission's requirement that antibiotics be given within four hours of presentation for patients diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), you now have some more breathing room.
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Petty RG. The role of diet and nutrition in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Altern Med Alert 2007;10(7):77-81.