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Hospital Revises Policy on Police Requests
The University of Utah Hospital continues to refine its policies for encounters with law enforcement, recently rolling out a new policy that requires police to go through the hospital’s customer service office with any request.
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Video Shows Aggressive Arrest of Nurse
The videos showing the arrest of nurse Alex Wubbels are disturbing to many viewers, but especially to risk managers and other healthcare professionals who understand the dilemma faced by a clinician trying to comply with hospital policy and the law when law enforcement demands otherwise.
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Nurse Arrest Puts Focus on Hospital Security, Policies
The highly publicized arrest of a Utah nurse for refusing to allow a police request to draw blood on an unconscious patient drew attention to how hospital policies and procedures should protect staff in such confrontations, and particularly the role that in-house police and security officers should play.
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Early Error Disclosure Training Prepares Residents to Provide Ethical Care
Role-modeling, a strong patient safety culture, and simulation training provided to interdisciplinary groups facilitate error disclosure, found several recent studies.
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Radiation Oncologists Want, but Often Lack, Palliative Care Training
Residents, practicing radiation oncologists, and program directors believe palliative care training is important, but education is lacking in some areas, according to multiple recent studies.
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Patients More Likely to Choose Do Not Resuscitate After Educational Video
Hospitalized patients who watched a video about code status choices were less likely to choose full code, and more likely to choose do not resuscitate or do not intubate, found a study of 119 patients hospitalized on the general medicine service at Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System in Minnesota.
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Study: Surrogates Sometimes Place Own Wishes Over Patient’s
Surrogate decision-makers are valuing what they think is best for the patient more than they value patient preferences in the process of making medical decisions for them, found a recent study.
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Ethical Debate Continues Over Genetically Modified Human Embryos
The first-known experiment creating genetically modified human embryos in the U.S. using a gene-editing tool called CRISPR reignited ethical debate on this type of research.
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Advance Care Planning Often ‘Useless’: Providers Can’t Always Access in EHRs
With electronic health records, patients’ advance care planning should be only a mouse click away. Too often, this isn’t reality.
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Research Shows Link Between Quality and Readmission Rates
Researchers studied readmissions of more than 2.7 million Medicare patients over age 65, treated at more than 4,700 hospitals between 2014 and 2015. Hospitals in the highest performance quartile for quality had significantly lower 30-day readmission rates than those in the lowest quartile.