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Doctors and other medical professionals occasionally joke about their patients' problems. Some of these jokes are clearly wrong, but some joking between medical professionals is not only ethical, but it actually can be beneficial, concludes an article in the Hastings Center Report.
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The question of whether to inform patients of a previous provider's error was highlighted recently in a discussion posted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
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Planning for a disaster is always important and necessary, and probably even more so when the disaster affects the mentally impaired in a hospital setting.
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For infants and young children with urinary tract infection (UTI) seen in the emergency department, a simple ultrasound examination might avoid the need for more complex X-ray tests, reports a study in a recent issue of The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.
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The financial demands on the current healthcare system puts more pressure on case managers to prepare patients for hospital discharge, ensure that they receive care in an appropriate venue, and/or support the patients in managing their chronic illnesses, says Teri Treiger, RN-C, MA, CCM, CCP, a case management consultant based in Holbrook, MA, and past president of the Case Management Society of America (CMSA), with headquarters in Little Rock, AR.
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Making written handouts readily available to clinicians interacting with patients is an important element of patient education.
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The way investigators, research institutions, and IRBs handle incidental findings has evolved in recent years, with a consensus now forming around the belief that research sites have an ethical responsibility when it comes to reporting certain incidental findings to research subjects.
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Many research institutions now have quality assurance/improvement projects that include research site audits or quality checks. But how many have thought about performing such a quality check on the IRB's work?
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Declining rates of hospitalization have discouraged primary care doctors from seeing their patients in the hospital and encouraged the growing use of hospitalists.
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Seniors who are at risk for readmission to the hospital are getting support that helps them stay healthy at home by Care Transitions coaches at SCAN Health Plan, a Long Beach, CA based health plan that provides coverage for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.