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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) announced its 100,000 Lives Campaign one year ago, with the lofty goal of enlisting 1,500 to 2,000 hospitals that would pledge to adopt six initiatives that, if implemented, would save 100,000 lives over an 18-month period by preventing avoidable medical errors.
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American physicians are recognized by many as leading the world in delivering the best medical care, but their expertise in delivering news of death to patients families is less than stellar, according to a death issues educator.
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Just a few years ago, kidneys in an adult age 60 or older, or in someone age 50 to 59 who had two or more of the following criteria death from stroke, hypertension, or elevated creatinine were considered outside the standard criteria for transplantation and went with their owner to the grave.
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Like any other businesses in a competitive market, hospitals are investing heavily in advertising; but hospitals are held to a different standard than supermarkets and car dealerships when it comes to vying for customers.
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Hospitals that receive federal funds would have to advise rape victims of the availability of emergency contraception (EC) to prevent pregnancy under bipartisan legislation that has been introduced into the U.S. House.
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If youre a physician and you have ever (or often) misrepresented patients symptoms to make sure their treatment and your services are covered by insurance, youre not alone.
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Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) in the United States is legal only in Oregon, but the palliative care practice of terminal sedation is viewed by some as accomplishing the same thing as PAS, only without the stigma and illegality associated with intentional euthanasia.
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The use of opioids for pain relief is limited by what some have called opiophobia, or the fear that patients will become addicted to the drugs. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has spelled out a means of addressing the drawbacks to opioid therapy and reducing the fear of prescribing opioids.
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) found its sweeping new ethics changes were proving a hard pill for its employees to swallow. As a result, they supplemented it with proposals that respond to actual and threatened resignations by some of the key NIH employees who say the new regulation, which requires employees to divest themselves of outside consulting and investments with pharmaceutical and biotech industries, is too restrictive.
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Illinois has become the first state to enact legislation based on the idea that an apology might serve as the most effective means to stop some medical malpractice lawsuits.
