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Research at the University of Mississippi Medical Center indicating that statin therapy reduces risk of developing all cerebrovascular events (CVE) and ischemic stroke, but is associated with a nonsignificant increase in risk of hemorrhagic stroke, is not likely to cause a major change in medical practice.
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What do you do when your successful hospital-based anticoagulation clinic has more patients than available slots? Detroit Medical Center pharmacist Candice Garwood, PharmD, faced that situation about three years ago and tells Drug Formulary Review she thought she had come up with a workable solutiontransition the most stable patients from the pharmacist-managed clinic to their physicians to continue their anticoagulation care.
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Following the deaths of two patients at specialty hospitals owned by physicians in both cases, the patients suffered complications following surgery, no physician was on duty, and the specialty hospitals called 9-1-1 to respond the Senate Finance Committee asked the Office of Inspector General (OIG) to evaluate patient care at 109 physician-owned specialty hospitals in the United States, and the OIG report, released in January, has raised concerns for patient safety.
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The U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VA) National Center for Ethics in Health Care launched a major ethics integration initiative in 2007, including a new component that seeks to standardize and evaluate the quality of ethics consultations.
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After an intoxicated and combative man broke loose from restraints, he struck two ED nurses and threw a computer at another nurse at a New York hospital in December 2007. Could this happen at your ED?
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White ED patients are more likely to receive narcotics such as oxycodone and morphine than patients of other races or ethnicities, says a new study.
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When children have procedural sedation in the ED, at least 42% have at least one adverse effect, according to a recent study of 547 children.
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One-third of the estimated 177,504 ED visits by elderly patients for adverse drug events were caused by warfarin, insulin, and digoxin in 2004 and 2005, says a new study.
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If your next patient had altered mental status and lethargy, would you suspect an unintentional overdose of pain medication?
