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Communication between health care providers and the families of critically ill and dying children is simultaneously the most important and most difficult task in some cases.
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Nurses or physicians who place patients in restraints or in isolation now must meet stricter training and documentation requirements thanks to a strengthened federal patient's rights rule effective as of Feb. 6.
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For some parents who find out that genetic or metabolic tests on their newborns indicate a potential problem, finding out the results were false positive doesn't always mean the stress goes away. In some cases, the lingering stress from the false-positive scare influences how the parents perceive the health of their children for years afterward.
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A Wisconsin nurse who was arrested on a felony charge stemming from an unintentional medical error that led to the death of a patient last summer will serve three years of probation after pleading no contest to reduced charges, but medical and nursing societies are concerned about the effect the case might have in future medical error situations.
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Despite the dominance of technology and medical discourse in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), many parents facing the end of their child's life view the experience as a spiritual journey as well as a medical one. Those families rely on religious faith or spiritual support as they struggle to find meaning in their children's situation and make end-of-life decisions for them.
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If your after-hours answering service is asking patients calling in to decide whether their complaint is an emergency, are you asking for trouble? Possibly, says a Minnesota researcher who evaluated 2,835 after-hours calls to a family medicine residency office in Denver.
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The number of academic medical centers that are banning free drug samples, free lunches, and other gifts from pharmaceutical company representatives remains small, but continues to grow.
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Are research and quality improvement (QI) mutually exclusive, or natural partners? When QI crosses over into research, what ethical issues can arise?
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When do you withhold or discontinue life-prolonging treatment in cases deemed medically futile? As baby boomers age, the critical issues surrounding these cases will require advance planning and establishment of guidelines.
