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Understand Discovery Rule, How to Avoid its Effects
The discovery rule can determine whether a potentially costly malpractice case will proceed, so understanding how it works is important for risk managers.
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Report Overpayments to CMS Carefully to Avoid More Trouble
CMS expects hospitals and healthcare systems to report overpayments within 60 days of discovery to avoid false claims allegations, but knowing when and how to report is not always easy.
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Freestanding EDs Growing in Popularity
Hospitals are opening freestanding EDs (FSEDs) at a rapid rate and mostly in states that allow them without meeting “determination of need” requirements.
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Freestanding EDs Can Have Special Compliance, Liability Concerns
As hospitals increasingly look to freestanding EDs as a way to serve patients better while potentially increasing profits, legal and compliance experts caution risk managers that they may bring risks beyond the familiar concerns of a hospital-based ED.
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VRE and MRSA: Should We Stop Routine Contact Precautions?
SYNOPSIS: The value of routine contact precautions for VRE and MRSA is strongly challenged.
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Anticoagulation in the Trauma Patient
The number and variety of anticoagulants have expanded greatly during the past decade. Because of the large number of individuals on anticoagulation for various conditions, anticoagulated patients assuredly will present as trauma patients.
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Reach out to the Addicted Before Outbreaks
Focused on their high calling to protect patients from cross-transmission and full-blown outbreaks, infection preventionists may find it difficult to muster compassion for those who willfully endanger their frail charges by stealing the very medicine needed to comfort them.
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Cures Act includes antibiotic provisions for CDC, FDA
Infectious disease groups have successfully lobbied Congress to pass legislation that would fast track development of new antibiotics, improve tracking of drug resistant bacteria and support the national push for antibiotic stewardship.
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Universal Masking Protects Stem Cell Patients
A universal masking policy for health care providers and home care workers dramatically reduced respiratory viral infections in hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients, researchers report.1
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CDC Studies Hospital Acquired Influenza
In the historical debate about whether healthcare workers should be required to have seasonal influenza shots, sometimes the issue of whether and how much flu is actually transmitted by caregivers has been viewed with some skepticism.