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An 88-year-old woman was taken to a local hospital after being found sitting outside her son's home, apparently confused. She was then transferred to a nursing facility, where she was diagnosed with altered levels of consciousness and inability to perform activities of daily living. The woman was again admitted to the hospital and fitted with a vest-restraint system.
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A woman was admitted to the hospital after suffering a heart attack. The woman was a high fall risk and eventually fell and fractured her nose and cut her forehead. The woman was fitted with an oxygen mask. Shortly thereafter, the electrocautery combined with oxygen from the mask, sparking a fire and leaving the woman with first and second degree burns. A jury returned a verdict of $1,215,000 in Michigan.
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Some topics are obvious when it comes to using metrics, but using metrics to study the behavior of employees and physicians doesn't get as much attention, notes David G. Danielson, JD, CPA, senior vice president for clinical risk management with Sanford Health, a health care network based in Sioux Falls, SD
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This is the first of a two-part series that examines strategies for employee retention. This month we look at the importance of patient satisfaction surveys and exit interviews.
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Asking employees what they think of their employer can be tricky. To obtain truthful answers, you want the survey to be anonymous, and one way to ensure anonymity is to use an outside source to conduct the survey, says Moses Altsech, PhD, founder of Marketing Hospice, a Madison, WI-based marketing consulting service.
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Despite great advances in cure rates, some children with cancer die each year. While pediatric oncology nurses have expertise in caring for children receiving treatment for cancer, during difficult times, including at end of life, many nurses are more comfortable "doing for" the child and their family than "being with" them.
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More than 680,000 or 25% of all deaths in the United States each year are veterans. A new program provided by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and the Department of Veterans Affairs offers hospices resources and tools to honor patients' service and address the special needs of military veterans.
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When Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City began looking at implementing palliative care and end-of-life services, the case management department was the appropriate place to start, says Anita Bell, RN, MEd CHPN, palliative care coordinator at the 508-bed facility.
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Health care in the last six months of life has become progressively more expensive for patients with heart failure among Medicare beneficiaries in the United States and older adults in Canada, with a high rate of hospitalizations in the final six months of life in both countries, according to two reports posted online. The reports will be published in the Feb. 14, 2011, print issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
