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A large hospital system in Massachusetts has agreed to pay $1 million in fines and improve its policies and procedures after an employee left patient information on a subway.
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Nearly 35% of all the imaging costs ordered for 2,068 orthopedic patient encounters in Pennsylvania were ordered for defensive purposes, according to study presented recently at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS).
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A woman suffering from personal problems and the subsequent unexpected death of her son was involuntarily committed to a behavioral health center by a psychologist allegedly following a telephone conference in which the woman expressed suicidal ideation. The physician failed to document the specifics of the conversation on the records required for an involuntary commitment.
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Compared with manual, automated blood pressure measurements significantly reduced the white coat response in otherwise healthy primary care patients with systolic hypertension while demonstrating a stronger correlation with awake ambulatory blood pressure readings.
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The Wells rule for identifying patients at high risk for DVT did not perform as well as one developed from an outpatient population.
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In a two-year study, postmenopausal women randomized to nitroglycerin ointment group had significant increases in areal BMD at the lumbar spine, total hip, and femoral neck and decreased bone resorption.
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A broad-spectrum, parenteral, cephalosporin with activity against both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria has been approved by the FDA. Ceftaroline fosamil is the prodrug of ceftaroline and is marketed by Forest Pharmaceuticals as Teflaro™.
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In animal models, aspirin (asa) has favorable effects on the incidence and/or growth rate of some cancers (CA).
