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As the use of Twitter and other social media by physicians and patients rises, some professionals worry that physicians increasingly seem to forget to do what many consider crucial for building doctor-patient trust:
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The recent dismissal of a lawsuit under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA) against Baptist Memorial Health Care in Memphis, TN, holds several lessons for risk managers, says the health systems attorney, Paul E. Prather, JD, a shareholder with the law firm of Littler Mendelson in Memphis.
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Simply gathering the data about clinical alarms wasnt enough to help The Johns Hopkins Hospital improve patient safety. Those numbers have to be broken down into meaningful parts.
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In 2006, Maria Cvach, MSN, RN, CCRN, assistant director of nursing clinical standards at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Andrew Currie, MS, CBET, the director of clinical engineering, were asked to head a team to reduce clinical alarms.
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News: In 2005, a 43-year-old man was crushed by an all-terrain vehicle when it crashed and flipped over while he was riding it.
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In an apparent attempt to err on the side of patient safety, advisors for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made recommendations for influenza vaccination of health care personnel (HCP) that went beyond the scientific evidence and now are the source of mandatory and punitive policies, the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy (CIDRAP) charges.
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Recognizing their common stake in preserving antibiotics, a diverse collaboration of more than a dozen groups -- including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, the Infectious Disease Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America recently joined in a partnership that began with the issuance of the following joint statement:
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The threat of a post-antibiotic era when once treatable infections are impervious to all available drugs is typically evoked as some future specter to force present change. In reality, at the very narrow margins, it is already here.
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In an attempt to preserve antibiotic efficacy and stem the rise of drug-resistant bacteria, there is an urgent call for antibiotic stewardship programs (ASP) across the health care continuum.
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Calling for the development of a game-changing universal flu vaccine, the authors of a sweeping new flu report warn that the American public may ultimately lose faith in national flu recommendations that overstate the benefit of current immunization.