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Medical malpractice plaintiffs attorneys are increasingly confident about obtaining potentially game-changing documents that risk managers assumed would never be seen by the other side.
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Approximately 62 million Americans speak a language other than English at home, and 25 million have limited English proficiency (LEP).
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Advance directives covering dementia care are complex, according to Rebecca Dresser, JD, Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and Professor of Ethics in Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
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Preclinical diagnosis of Alzheimers disease shares some of the same controversies surrounding preclinical states of other diseases such as cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, and diabetes.
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Physicians often provide high-intensity care for patients at the end of life, even when the physicians would not choose this for themselves.
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Almost all (96%) of 173 oncology nurses surveyed reported concerns about system barriers in their efforts to help patients prepare for the end of life, according to a 2014 study.
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It is easy to understand why someone thought that all tubes used in a particular setting should be interchangeable: It would be cheaper to manufacture and easier for someone getting a necessary piece of equipment to grab what was needed and not have to worry whether the male part would fit the female.
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Would you give your physicians a $19 million bonus? What if you knew doing so would save you $113 million, cut your length of stay and improve quality? Thats what a group of New Jersey hospitals did as part of a pilot program for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. It was so successful that the group applied for, and was granted, permission to continue the project on a larger scale.
