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Oral Prednisolone for Acute Gout; Adding Aliskiren to Losartan for Diabetic Nephropathy; Early Aggressive Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes Pays Off; Sublingual Immunotherapy; Methylnaltrexone for Opioid-Induced Constipation; Prucalopride for Severe Constipation
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The Joint Commission has issued a Sentinel Event Alert on preventing accidents and injuries in the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suite
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Your hospital is likely in the process of implementing a rapid response team (RRT), if one is not already in place but the team is probably focused on adult care. Now a small but growing number of hospitals are implementing pediatric RRTs to improve the care of children.
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The quality of nursing care will have a much bigger impact on reimbursement than ever before, as a result of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) "no pay" conditions, according to a recent analysis.
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Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston have shown that using bar-code technology to augment the counting of surgical sponges during an operative procedure increases the detection rate of miscounted and/or misplaced sponges. Their research is published in the April 2008 issue of the Annals of Surgery.1
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Baylor Healthcare System, based in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area of Texas, has been named the recipient of this year's National Quality Healthcare Award by the National Quality Forum (NQF).
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Although they've been around for a while, personal health records, or PHRs, have been grabbing bigger headlines recently with the launch of Google Health, bringing the two largest brands on the Internet (Microsoft already had launched its HealthVault product) squarely into the health care arena.
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Doxorubicin-based chemotherapy has remained a standard for the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma for decades. Recently, combination gemcitabine and docetaxel demonstrated significant clinical activity in a single-institution mixed population study of women with uterine leiomyosarcoma.
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