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With outpatient surgery salaries flat across much of much of the nation, outpatient surgery managers are finding that they need to enticing benefits and a positive work culture to recruit and retain staff.
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With a national shortage of neurologists, it is impossible for all hospital EDs to have neurology specialty expertise on site whenever patients with symptoms of stroke present for care.
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Is there a better way for ED managers to stay on top of flu outbreaks and the corresponding surges in patient volume?
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Recent clinical trials utilizing intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) to quantify coronary artery plaque burden have demonstrated that statin therapy has the potential to arrest the progression of coronary artery disease, and even to effect a small amount of plaque regression. Rosuvastatin is more effective than atorvastatin in reducing low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and increasing high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels. Whether this translates into more effective plaque regression is not known. Accordingly, Nicholls and colleagues performed a large, multicenter clinical trial to compare the effects of high-dose atorvastatin vs high-dose rosuvastatin on coronary artery plaque burden.
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A new report from Public Citizen claims that the imposition of medical liability caps in Texas in 2003 has not reduced medical costs or curbed the ordering of expensive diagnostic tests, and instead, healthcare is less available and has become more expensive compared to national averages.
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Even under the best of circumstances, implementing an electronic health record system is difficult, costly, time-consuming, and fraught with unintended adverse consequences