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Eight-three hospitals in the Pennsylvania Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) Falls Reduction and Prevention Collaboration were given two tools to evaluate their falls prevention programs. Those tools, provided by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, were a self-assessment survey and a process measures audit.
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In a move to reduce healthcare-associated infections, certain attire for healthcare professionals, including the traditional white coat, could become a thing of the past.
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Making decisions, while done daily, and often hourly, is difficult for many professionals. While not everyone endorses the following statement, I firmly adhere to it personally and professionally: "A bad decision is better than no decision." My rationale is that you learn from making decisions, good and bad.
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The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has adopted a final recommendation to freeze payments for ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) under Medicare prospective payment systems (PPSs) for 2015, according to the American Hospital Association (AHA).
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Implementing a system to ensure the surgical team uses the most effective practices resulted in significant improvements in operating room (OR) performance, suggests research being presented at the American Society of Anesthesiologists' (ASA) Practice Management 2014 meeting.
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After a patient developed a bacterial infection following arthroscopic knee surgery and sued, a California surgery center was found guilty of negligence and ordered to pay more than half a million dollars to the patient. Three other patients became infected with bacteria, but the center couldn't track which instruments were used on which patients.
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With Congress in a seemingly perpetual state of deadlock, one of the most anticipated actions on federal reproductive health policy will instead be taken by the U.S. Supreme Court this spring.
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Early research indicates that women with moderate to severe menstrual cramps might find relief in vaginal administration of sildenafil citrate (Viagra, Pfizer), a drug commonly used for erectile dysfunction.
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No link seen between regimen use and increased sexual risk behavior
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Transdermal contraception provides a family planning option that is not dependent on daily dosing. The only transdermal contraceptive approved in the United States is the Ortho Evra patch.