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Insurance industry underwriters are relying more on risk assessments when you apply for coverage, but theyre not the only ones you have to please. The Joint Commission also has some expectations in this area, and risk managers could benefit from knowing exactly what the accrediting body wants.
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Any hospital employee witnessing a fall should know how to document the incident clearly, says Ruth M. Maher, PT, DPT, MPT, BS, director of physical therapy at HyOx Medical Treatment Center in Marietta, GA. She suggests training employees to immediately note this information after a fall.
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What should our emergency department staff do when a patient requests transfer to another facility before being examined and stabilized? Can we comply with that request without violating EMTALA?
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Slips and falls are a leading loss driver in both frequency and severity, says Jim Sheridan, senior risk control consultant with PMA Insurance Group in Blue Bell, PA.
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Experts say these are the top 10 strategies for reducing slips, trips, falls, and the associated liability.
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Slips, trips, and falls happen in any health care setting, and they can be enormously expensive. The good news is that you can sharply reduce those accidents by aggressively employing some rather simple strategies.
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In this simple yet elegant, single-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study, 12 patients with McArdles disease were given a sucrose, or artificially sweetened placebo load, prior to aerobic exercise to determine if this might improve exercise tolerance. Average age of the 7 men and 5 women was 37 years, and all had lifelong exercise intolerance, episodic muscle cramps, and myoglobinuria triggered by exercise.
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Visual hallucinations and delusions are common in patients with moderate to advanced Parkinsons disease (PD). Typically fleeting images of people, children, or animals are easily ignored; however, hallucinations often become more intense and frequent, with loss of insight.
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In August 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) was stricken with poliomyelitis, then also referred to as infantile paralysis. Afterward, he made a courageous, lifetime effort to overcome the ravages of the disease. In time, he helped create a foundation to help other polio victims, and he inspired, as well as directed, the March of Dimes program that eventually funded an effective polio vaccine.
