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News: A man injured his neck and back after diving into the bottom of a shallow lake. He was transported to the hospital, where physicians became concerned that the man's central spinal canal had been compromised.
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These are details of some of the most recent medical helicopter crashes:
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An incident such as the Plaxico Burress gunshot injury should prompt risk managers to review all relevant contracts, bylaws, and related policies related to the legal obligation to report gunshot wounds, says Martin Kalish, MD, JD, a partner with the law firm of Arnstein & Lehr in Miami.
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A California hospital's efforts to improve the care of acutely ill patients who are in the emergency department or on medical-surgical floors rather than the intensive care unit has made it a 2008 recipient of the 12th annual Ernest Amory Codman Award, awarded by The Joint Commission.
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Washington, DC-based URAC, an independent, nonprofit accreditation organization, has unveiled significant revisions to its health information technology standards. The changes affect health web site accreditation and URAC's HIPAA Privacy and Security standards.
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Oftentimes HIPAA standards are not as straightforward as a hospital leader might hope or expect — but that's by design, says Beth Hjort, RHIA, CHPS, professional practice resource manager for the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).
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According to Jill M. Steinberg, a health care attorney with Baker Donelson in Memphis, TN, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) would prevent an ED physician from discussing a patient's HIV status with any other person, even if that person could be potentially exposed to an infectious disease.
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While brain death is widely accepted as a way of defining when death has occurred, this determination, or category of death, can create its own set of problems.
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"Defining Wisdom," a project of The University of Chicago across multiple disciplines, awarded Lauris Kaldjian, MD, PhD, in 2008 a grant to develop a framework for medical decision making.
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One ethical dilemma nurses face when they move from clinical care to clinical research (CR) is the way the two fields' missions are different with regard to patients.
