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Report: Nurse Practitioners Pose Malpractice Risk Similar to Physicians
Nurse practitioners face malpractice risks similar to those of physicians. Hospitals should provide similar types and levels of education in risk management.
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Study: Diagnostic Accuracy Still Largest Claims Risk
Diagnosis failures still pose the biggest risk for malpractice claims. A recent review found that they account for 33% of medical professional liability claims.
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Patients Sometimes Game EMTALA System
EMTALA compliance is greatly complicated in communities with significant homeless populations.
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Four Steps for Improving EMTALA Compliance
Compliance with EMTALA will continue to pose challenges until systemic problems like the treatment of behavioral health patients can be addressed, but in the meantime there are steps that can help a hospital avoid being penalized for violations.
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Confusion, Competing Priorities Behind EMTALA Violations
Most hospitals violating EMTALA intend to comply with the law but fall short because of confusion about requirements and competing priorities between doctors and hospitals.
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EMTALA Violations Persist as Hospitals Cope With Overload
Hospitals continue violating EMTALA despite years of compliance efforts and the threat of severe penalties. In most cases, the hospital does not intend to dump patients.
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Disability Trajectories Give Insights on End of Life
Derived disability trajectories provide useful information about different facets of the end-of-life experience, found a recent study.
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Ethical Dilemma? Too Often, Chaplains Are Involved Last
Conscientious objection of providers, moral distress, patient adherence, and difficult or noncompliant patients all are situations where chaplains can be of help. Yet when healthcare teams are concerned about medical ethics dilemmas, chaplains often are the team members who are involved last.
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Patient-reported Resuscitation Status Doesn’t Necessarily Match Clinicians’ Orders
Patient-reported and clinician-ordered resuscitation preferences were discordant in 20% of patients hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure, a recent study reports.
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Blacks and Whites, but Not Hispanics, Increasing Advance Directive Completion
Blacks and whites had longitudinal increased rates of advance directive completion, but the same was not true for Hispanics, a recent study found.