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Allergies Most Common in Dietary Errors
Most dietary errors are related to food allergies, according to an analysis of errors reported to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority over five years.
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Safety Risks in Food Services Can Be Underestimated
Food services can play an important role in patient safety, but may not receive enough attention.
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Study: Palliative Care Meetings Did Not Reduce Anxiety, Depression
Palliative care-led informational and emotional support meetings with families of ICU patients did not reduce anxiety or depression symptoms, and may have increased post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, found a recent study.
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Growing Focus on Physician Well-being: More Than Half Report Burnout
More than half of U.S. physicians are now experiencing professional burnout, found a recent study.
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Data Reveal Reasons for Under-enrollment of Minorities In Clinical Trials
Barriers to enrolling a diverse population of patients in clinical trials are complex and multilevel, concluded a recent study.
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‘Very Serious Ethical Problem:’ Adverse Events Often Unpublished
Much information on adverse events in clinical trials remains unpublished — and the number of adverse events is higher in unpublished than published versions of the same study, according to a recent review.
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Medical Assistance In Dying Now Legal In Canada: Ethicists Are Providing Education
Physician-assisted dying is legal in Canada, due to legislation passed in June 2016. Ethicists are among those providing multidisciplinary education in the hospital setting.
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New Data on Physician-assisted Suicide in U.S.
New data on attitudes and practices of euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide from 1947 to 2016 found that physician-assisted suicide is increasingly being legalized.
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Physician-assisted Dying: It’s ‘Perhaps the Central Question in Medical Ethics Today’
With physician-assisted dying currently legal in six states, hospitals are facing ethical questions on responding to requests and addressing conscientious objectors.
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Fatal Infection Resistant to All Antibiotics
Last August a female patient in an acute care hospital in Reno, NV, died of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae that was resistant to 26 antibiotics. The pathogen was Klebsiella pneumoniae that was isolated from a wound specimen. Of note, the patient had recently been hospitalized in India, and the specific enzyme conferring pan resistance was first discovered in that country: New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase.