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Several ambulatory surgery center (ASC) leaders have reported questions concerning how to report G-codes with no associated charges, according to the ASC Association (ASCA) web site.
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This is the first part of a multi-part series on compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). In this months issue, we focus on education and training. In future issues, well discuss sharps safety, personal protective equipment (PPE), employee safety, and hazardous materials, plus more.
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This is part one of a two-part series on alarm fatigue. In this issue we discuss how to reduce alarm fatigue. In next months issue, we tell you how The Johns Hopkins Hospital reduced alarms up to 74% in some areas
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Healthcare workers might be suffering in silence from work-related dermatitis.
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Although not subject to the provisions of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, which become effective in September 2014, sales of medications or products in provider offices could unduly influence patients, says Margaret R. McLean, PhD, associate director and director of bioethics at Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara (CA) University.
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The majority of third-year medical students were able to recall the four ethical principles, appreciated the relevance of preclinical ethics education, and had positive self-assessments of their clinical-ethical reasoning abilities, according to a recent study.
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When the Department of Health and Human Services announced plans in 2011 for a mystery shopper study of access to primary care, some physicians raised ethical concerns about the use of deception with human subjects without soliciting their informed consent.
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Decisions about whether to offer genetic testing and screening to children should be driven by what is in the best interest of the child, emphasizes Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD, Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum professor of clinical ethics and associate director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics in Chicago, IL.