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Before Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Orange County, CA, started its collaborative care initiatives for case management and social work, the two disciplines often were at odds with each other.
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Every day, we are confronted by problems that need solving. The problem might present itself simply as a minor inconvenience, or the problem may be a significant variance from ideal clinical practices. Whatever challenges your organization faces, effective problem-solving skills are needed to deal with the issues.
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Control charts, quality tools that can help tighten the focus on process variations, increasingly are gaining acceptance among some health care quality professionals. In fact, a number of Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations requirements specifically mention the use of control charts.
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In November, national news outlets reported on Steve Rucker, a nurse at the National Institutes of Health and one of two people to receive an experimental vaccine for Ebola. He did it, he told reporters, because he knew how important vaccines were to areas of the world where medicines and expertise for treating diseases are hard to come by.
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Pfizers Study Participant Compensation Policy
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The newly formed Secretarys Advisory Committee on Human Research Protection has its work cut out committee members already have three subcommittees establishing work plans, and there many more top priorities to be chosen from the federal regulations.
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In recent years, changes in federal law and guidelines on federally funded research have encouraged the inclusion of children as research subjects in clinical drug trials.
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In this prospective, observational study, cook and associates recruited 851 patients who were likely to receive mechanical ventilation (MV) for more than 72 hours.
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Among all factors associated with VRE transmission, VRE acquisition may depend on room contamination, even after extensive cleaning.
