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Keep Vendors and Their Surprises Out of Your ORs and Your Contracts
Ambulatory surgery programs often find they have various unexpected expenses due to vendor activities. Make sure your hospital knows what it's buying.
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Georgia Courts Continue to Define its Emergency Care Reform Law
Georgia’s tort reform law remains at the forefront of medical malpractice litigation.
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States Leverage Their Telepsychiatry Solutions to Ease ED Crowding
Many states are turning to telepsychiatry-based solutions to connect patients with needed care while decompressing their overcrowded EDs.
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Serratia outbreak linked to drug diversion
A former nurse at the University of Wisconsin (UW) Hospital and Clinics in Madison, who allegedly diverted pain medication for personal use, may be linked to a cluster of infections among patients from the units where she worked, UW officials report.
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Trail of Tears: Fired Drug Diverting HCWs Free to Find Another Hospital
A nurse stealing morphine by replacing it with saline in a medication vial may not have realized she was colonized with Serratia marcescens.
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Increase in ‘Super Losses’ Could Affect Your Medical Malpractice Premiums
A trend toward more medical malpractice with payouts of more than $5 million might affect premiums even for hospitals that have no such history.
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REM Behavior Disorder as a Predictor of Parkinson’s Disease
Here are the results of a carefully executed study of REM behavior disorder patients compared to controls and those with Parkinson’s disease.
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Texting Parents Gets Children to the Office for Second Dose Vaccine
When old-school measures don't work, take a thoroughly modern step that gets results with parents of younger patients: Send them a text.
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The Devalued Body: Symptoms of BPD in Mental Health and Medical Settings
Borderline personality disorder is a complex dysfunction often caused by childhood trauma and it may result in your patients harming themselves.
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Insulin: A Primer
With the continued development of “smarter” pumps, the management of one of the most common chronic conditions is becoming safer and more effective.