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Ensuring age- and condition-appropriate medical care for young patients with special health care needs is challenging enough, but one aspect of their care that may not receive the attention it merits is the effect on a child when he or she is forced to transition from pediatric to adult care.
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How and when, during the course of a medical students education, should the subject of ethics be taught is a matter of much discussion. One program at the University of Iowas (UI) Carver College of Medicine adds an additional basic element teaching med students how to tell if an ethical problem is really an ethical problem.
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Last year, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that then-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, the plaintiff in the ongoing case against the law, cannot sanction or hold doctors criminally liable for prescribing overdoses under Oregon law. The Bush administration has appealed, and the Supreme Court has agreed to review Oregons law.
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The president of the American Medical Association (AMA), who became the target of criticism from gay and lesbian groups after comments defending a medical schools decision to ban a gay student group were attributed to him in a newspaper article, asserts that his views were misrepresented.
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The draft tuberculosis guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sparked widely ranging comments with divergent opinions from those who think N95 filtering facepiece respirators are inadequate, to those who think they are unnecessary.
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These are the overall rankings of lateral-transfer devices from a study by Andrea Baptiste and John Lloyd of the Patient Safety Center of the James A. Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa, FL.
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When a patient needs to be moved from a bed to a stretcher, do your nurses reach across for the draw sheet and pull? If so, theyre at risk for debilitating back injury.
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Elderly patients pose special challenges when it comes to falls, so your prevention strategy must take into account the factors unique to this population. This summary is offered by a professor of physical therapy at Temple University in Philadelphia.
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Although few patients have taken advantage of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act privacy rule that allows them to amend their medical records, those numbers will increase dramatically as people gain confidence in owning their health care data, predicts a management consultant with the Dearborn, MI-based health information management division of ACS Health Care Solutions.
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When the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center-Presbyterian in Philadelphia transformed its outpatient registration staff into three teams, each with a specific task, the benefits were apparent immediately, says the medical center's business administrator for patient access.
