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This is the first of a two-part series on evaluating weight loss programs. This month, we give strategies to demonstrate the impact of your programs. Next month, we'll report on the use of an audit tool to measure the effectiveness of obesity prevention programs.
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Working nights and rotating shifts can wreak havoc with your sleep schedule.
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Do you assume that employees with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) skin infections need to be routinely excluded from work?
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America's obesity epidemic continues to expand at the waistline, raising the issues of both chronic disease and job safety in obese workers.
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Many odors are noxious, but few are as repellent as the foul smell of massive hematochezia. Everybody in the emergency department knows something is wrong. Once you get past the smell, you realize you often have a very ill patient with a complex medical history and underlying comorbidities. Disposition decision is often easy ("ADMIT"), but to whom and where?
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Increasing workloads and pressure and an emphasis on productivity is negatively affecting the safety climate at hospitals, nurses reported in a 2008 online survey of nurses by the Silver Spring, MD-based American Nurses Association (ANA).
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Working nights and rotating shifts can wreak havoc with your sleep schedule. Shift work has been linked to a wide range of hazards, from cardiovascular disease and cancer to fatigue that leads to errors. But researchers have an upbeat message about shift work: You can reduce those ill effects.
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The Swiss tourist with pneumonia who came to the emergency department in a Tucson, AZ, hospital didn't seem like an unusual case. And yet her story would unfold into a cautionary tale for hospitals about why they should be on guard for cases of measles - and why they need accessible records on the immune status of employees.