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Liraglutide for Prevention of Diabetes
Liraglutide is the newest agent to be added to the list of successful agents for combating diabetes.
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Surgical Replacement: Younger vs. Older Knees and Hips
Data suggest that clinicians inform potential subjects of the greater likelihood for repeat surgery if initial replacement surgery is performed on patients < 70 years of age.
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Spinal Manipulation for Low Back Pain
Whether the degree of pain reduction attributed to spinal manipulation therapy reported here will satisfy many clinicians is questionable.
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AOHP Offers Research Scholarship
The Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare is seeking proposals for an original research project on current or anticipated issues in hospital-related occupational health.
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Employee Health Research Steps Up Protection of HCWs
A common truism is that “you can’t have patient safety without worker safety” — which makes intuitive sense, but lacks definitive data.
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Three Nurses Acquire Hepatitis A from Transplant Patient
A highly unusual chain of events led to three nurses being infected with hepatitis A virus from a pediatric transplant patient who contracted it from the organ donor.
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Physician Suicide: Stigma Still Holds Sway
Like so many stories of suicide, this one begins with a haunting memory and an unanswerable question. Why would a young student, having passed the rigorous tests and trials to get into medical school and about to begin the education and career that is his seeming life’s purpose, go home for Thanksgiving break and kill himself?
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AOHP Urges OSHA to Pursue ‘Zero-Tolerance’ Violence Reg
As the comment period closes and efforts to promulgate a standard to protect healthcare workers against violence begin, OSHA should broaden its approach and take a “zero-tolerance” stance against all forms of assaults and verbal threats, urges the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare.
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Health Systems Turn to Communication and Resolution Programs to Identify Errors
Pioneering adherents of this approach note that a policy of extreme honesty gets high marks from both patients and providers while enabling hospitals to prevent repeat errors.
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Institute a Thorough Process to Manage Payer Audits
Time has proven that constant interaction with payers on these issues results in improved payment, greater communication, and a better understanding of issues.