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If you assume that patients complaining of headache are nontherapeutic medication seekers or chronic complainers, you risk undertriaging these patients, warns Rebekah Child, RN, MSN, CEN, CNIV, an ED nurse at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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An elderly woman tells ED triage nurses she's had an excruciating, unrelenting headache for the past two days. She has a steady gait.
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Gilbert (AZ) Hospital has one of the busiest emergency departments in the area and an average ED waiting time of less than 12 minutes.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed significant expansion in hospital quality reporting requirements, including adding 46 new quality measures for which hospitals must submit data over the next two years, and increasing the number of hospital-acquired conditions for which Medicare won't reimburse.
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Faced with an increasing number of patients in observation status, Brandon (FL) Regional Hospital began an observation management process that resulted in a 16% decrease in observation patients and a 27% drop in observation length of stay in just one year.
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A variety of improvement projects are going on throughout your organization. Some are aimed at improving the efficiency of services and some are undertaken in an effort to reduce adverse events. There are also customer satisfaction and documentation improvement projects. And the list goes on...
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A recent development has put greater emphasis on pressure ulcer prevention in hospitals: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will stop reimbursement for certain hospital-acquired conditions, including pressure ulcers, as part of an update to the hospital inpatient prospective payment system.
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An anonymous survey of investigators, research administrators, and project managers found that principal investigators and co-investigators tend have a less favorable impression of IRBs and IRB staff than do the research assistants and project managers.
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IRB policies and forms often need to be updated and revised as human subjects research rules and regulations evolve.
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When research officials at the University of Virginia of Charlottesville, VA, began to ask what happens to a study once it's approved by the IRB, the answer became a new program: a post-IRB approval compliance monitoring and education program.