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The patient's eating habits before surgery play an important role in the choice of the operative technique used.
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The results have shown that the Ethicon 6-row stapler had more misfires and the Autosuture Endo-GIA 6-row stapler resulted in more bleeding complications.
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Just 14 weeks after The Joint Commission approved an interim action that allowed pharmacists to retrospectively review ED medication orders to comply with element of performance (EP) 1 for standard 4.10 of medication management, the action was suspended.
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Imagine being in the position of publicly critiquing a competing hospital's compliance with Joint Commission requirements. Would you be able to be completely objective? Even if you were, would your colleagues really trust your ability to be impartial?
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Most ED managers breathed a sigh of relief after The Joint Commission approved an interim action, effective Jan. 1, 2007, that changed the requirement for pharmacy review of ED medication orders [element of performance (EP) 1 for standard 4.10 of medication management].
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The quality and safety of stroke care in U.S. hospitals can be vastly improved if risk managers first understand how patients may be injured as a result of medical mishaps, according the experience of Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY.
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The program developed at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore that pushed catheter-related bloodstream infection rates to zero in some intensive care units is based on the following four overriding principles. Sara Cosgrove, MD, hospital epidemiologist, comments on each one as follows:
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Infection control practices and other "hospital factors" specific to individual institutions appear to be a greater influence on infection risk than a patient's severity of illness, researchers found.
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Sandiumenge and colleagues evaluated the effects of three strategies of antibiotic prescribing in a 14-bed ICU. The strategies were applied serially, beginning with an initial 10-month period during which patients with suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia received "patient-specific therapy" in which multiple antibiotic regimens, chosen on the basis of length-of-stay and recent antibiotic exposure, were used.