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United Kingdom's Baroness Mary Warnock, considered an expert on medical ethics, created a stir in late 2008 with her suggestion that those in the UK with dementia have a duty to die, so as not to strain public health resources.
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The House of Delegates of the American Medical Association (AMA) in Chicago at its November 2008 meeting in Orlando voted to ask The Joint Commission for a moratorium on its disruptive physicians policy, introduced in July 2008 and scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2009. A decision on the matter was not reached prior to press time.
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Clinical trial (CT) sites should be providing research nurses and other staff with the best possible foundation in clinical research ethics, as well as helping them make the transition from clinical care to research trials, experts say.
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One ethical dilemma nurses face when they move from clinical care to clinical research (CR) is the way the two fields' missions are different with regard to patients.
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"Defining Wisdom," a project of The University of Chicago across multiple disciplines, awarded Lauris Kaldjian, MD, PhD, in 2008 a grant to develop a framework for medical decision making.
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While brain death is widely accepted as a way of defining when death has occurred, this determination, or category of death, can create its own set of problems.
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As we start a new year, this is a good time to do some internal housekeeping and defensive planning.
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(Editor's note: This is the first part of a two-part series on saving money. This month we cover how to save on equipment and give you information on how adding surgeons results in cost savings. Next month, we'll cover how to stop throwing away money on supplies.)
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Outpatient surgery managers are feeling the repercussions of the current difficult economy. With programs often performing fewer surgeries and some facilities being sold, careers seem less certain.
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After a six-year wait, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has finally released the updated guidelines on disinfection and sterilization. So what's the next step for outpatient surgery managers?