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Three of the top five issues identified by more than 102,000 health care employees surveyed by Press Ganey, a South Bend, IN-based satisfaction survey company, related to the effectiveness of communication between employees and senior leadership.
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Sometimes you can't say yes to the solutions devised by employees, but you have to be ready to show that you listened and took the suggestions seriously, says Theresa Uhl, RN, BSN, interim director of Southern Home Care in Jeffersonville, IN.
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About one in five hospices in the United States operate an inpatient facility or residence, and the number of hospice homes is growing, hospice officials say.
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Hospices from coast to coast are expanding or building new hospice homes as part of a trend of providing inpatient or residential care to end-of-life patients.
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Sometimes a hospice's client satisfaction and staffing problems stem from repeated and often unnecessary off-hour calls by patients and families.
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There is a role for endovascular therapy, such as stenting, as reported in Stroke, in the setting of failed medical management with anticoagulants.
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The probability of in-hospital death was higher for patients with the lowest total FOUR score than for those with the lowest total GCS score.
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In a randomized trial comparing immediate radiation therapy to delayed treatment in patients who underwent primary surgical resection of low-grade gliomas, overall survival was not significantly different between the 2 groups.
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Whole body fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography scanning helps uncover the associated tumor, and recently proposed criteria may assist in the diagnosis. In many instances, prompt treatment of the tumor and immunotherapy result in symptom stabilization or neurologic improvement.
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In a consecutive case series of 18 patients with severe essential tremor who underwent implantation of bilateral thalamic DBS electrodes, high-frequency stimulation resulted in significant, long-term improvement in their quality of life.
