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Customer service is included in the patient access job description at Baptist Health Richmond (KY).
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Occasionally, clinicians, patients, or surrogates reject an ethicists advice or recommendations. In this scenario, bioethicists should seek to maintain working relationships and continue dialogue.
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Patient safety is at risk if clinicians with undiagnosed conditions causing impairment continue to practice, but colleagues often fail to report the impairment.
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Informed consent is a key ethical concern when health care providers are consenting to a mandatory vaccination, since autonomous patient choice is not possible where vaccination is a condition of employment.
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More hospitals and health care facilities are developing policies, procedures, resources, and training modules to address disclosure of mistakes to patients and families.
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With the approaching flu season complicated by possible introductions of an emerging coronavirus in the Middle East and a novel H7N9 flu strain in China, clinicians in U.S. hospitals may need to rely more on gumshoe epidemiology than available diagnostics.
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The rapid transmission and high attack rate of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus in a hospital dialysis unit in Al-Hufuf, Saudi Arabia raises substantial concerns about the risk of health careassociated transmission of this virus, a team of researchers recently reported.