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A newborn baby exhibited signs of child abuse each time he was brought to the doctor during the first seven weeks of his life. His injuries, however, were ignored continually.
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Working with outside counsel can be very different than working with your corporate colleague, and a few tips can help you get the most from that relationship.
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Even as the health care system continues to adopt the idea of full disclosure after a medical error, new research is confirming something that many risk managers already suspected.
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A good relationship with in-house counsel will help you both to your jobs better, especially if you are employed by a large, complex health care organization.
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This is the basic framework of the SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation) checklist developed by Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA, to improve patient safety when handing off a patient from clinician to another.
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The evidence released so far concerning the suspicious deaths at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans has John Banja, PhD, assistant director for health sciences and clinical ethics at Emory University in Atlanta, thinking ...
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The attorney representing Anna Pou, MD, accused of murdering patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, says the doctor should be lauded for her work in the flooded hospital, not charged with any crime.
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Murder allegations against a physician and two nurses at a New Orleans hospital have stirred up the health care industry, especially the hospitals and other providers that suffered through the dire conditions after Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005.
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Patient handoff now is known to be a high-risk time, with the transfer of responsibilities opening up the potential for misunderstandings, incomplete information, and other failures of communication that can threaten patient safety.
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The murder accusations against clinicians at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans are another blow to the troubled Tenet Healthcare Corp., based in Dallas.