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Ten patients undergoing LASIK procedures at a single laser surgery center in Sao Paulo, Brazil, suffered corneal infection due to Mycobacterium chelonae.
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Adefovir Dipivoxil for Hepatitis B; Lets Have a Carpet Picnic at Your House?
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Interest is growing in a relatively new field in rehab: providing help for visually impaired patients. But experts in the field say low vision rehab programs arent growing nearly fast enough to come to the aid of the estimated 14 million Americans who have vision problems not correctable by standard glasses, contact lenses, medicine, or surgery.
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Tips for starting a visual rehab program
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Rehab staff members at St. Francis Hospital in Greenville, SC, havent looked at the inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) as an onerous task. Instead, theyve treated PPS as an opportunity to become more efficient, productive, and profitable.
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Good posture is important because it facilitates the best functioning of the musculoskeletal system, says Scott Bautch, DC, past president of the Occupational Health Council for the Arlington, VA-based American Chiropractic Association (ACA) and a practicing chiropractor in Wausau, WI. Muscles, ligaments, vertebrae, disks, and nerves are meant to be in good posture, he says.
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Most of health care these days seems to be about problem-solving figuring out what is wrong with a patient, a process, or a system and fixing it. This is a negative way of viewing things, says Kathleen Davis, RN, MBA, vice president of hospital and nursing services for the Lovelace Health System in Albuquerque, NM. Take nurse retention, she says. Everyone is focused on why people are leaving, not why they stay.
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When considering opportunities to improve financial performance, benchmarking may not immediately come to mind, but health care managers who have used benchmarking techniques to enhance the fiscal well-being of their institutions have found it to be invaluable.
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