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Living wills and advance directives often don't ensure that dying patients receive the kind of medical care they want, or don't want, to receive.
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A new Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert warns that health care providers today are being confronted with steadily increasing rates of crime, including assault, rape, and murder.
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The use of volunteers to enhance hospice services has grown and will continue to grow, according to Greg Schneider, founding director of Hospice Volunteer Association in Occidental, CA.
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Healthcare Risk Management, also published by AHC Media, took first place honors in the best instructional reporting category of the Specialized Information Publishers Association's annual journalism awards announced recently.
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Aggressive approach to CVD reduces MI, folic acid and vitamin B12 for CAD, corticosteroids for acute exacerbations of COPD, prescription drug abuse among young adults, and ARBs and cancer risk.
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There are many things that factor into missing a diagnosis of appendicitis, says William Sullivan, DO, JD, FACEP, director of emergency services at St. Mary's Hospital in Streator, IL.
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"This takes the longest to document," he says. "I might not remember every piece of history I asked, or every part of the physical exam that I did, even with computer guidance," he says. "But I spend most of my time on medical reasoning."