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With hospital administrators a key target audience, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has slated a national infection control conference that will emphasize the importance of adequately funding an increasingly important program.
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How well your employees comply with proper hand hygiene may affect not only hospital-based infections, but accreditation ratings as well.
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Recent traffic on end-of-life professional listservs, presentations at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization conference in September, and new projects under way in communities from coast to coast attest to hospice houses continued attraction for hospices seeking ways to establish and operate houses of their own.
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Although Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson focused his year-long presidency of the National Association of Attorneys General on improving end-of-life care and urging his colleagues to take a more active role in protecting terminally ill patients, several of his colleagues are at the forefront of changing state policies and affecting provider and consumer behavior.
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Attorneys general should play a role in advising state agencies and educating others about how laws and policies related to end-of-life care should be enforced, especially if they seem to be at odds with patient rights. The most salient example of this conflict has been the ongoing battle between end-of-life care advocates and law enforcement agencies.
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Failure to control pain or to provide health care in accordance with
a patients wishes is a matter of consumer protection, according to Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson. He says he hopes the 49 other attorneys general in the United States will see matters the same way.
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Seasonale (Barr Laboratories, Pomona, NY), the first extended-cycle oral contraceptive (12 weeks continuous daily active pill followed by a one-week inactive pill) approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to become clinically available by the end of this month.
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ACNM web site offers breast-feeding resources; New condom now available from Trojan; New Arabic web site offers EC information