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There continues to be controversy regarding the merits and risks of one- or two-layer closure of the uterus during cesarean section. Also, although opinions abound concerning whether or not to close the peritoneum during a cesarean section, until now there has been sparse evidence in the literature to back either side.
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Home health agencies still provide personalized care for patients in their homes, just as they always have, but technological advances have improved the way that agencies manage and documents that care.
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While the SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation) technique is a fairly straightforward concept, implementing the methodology can be more difficult than you might expect.
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Three years ago, Visiting Nurse Services of the Northwest in Mountlake Terrace, WA, began offering telemedicine services to a wide range of patients.
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No one enjoys watching a video of a talking head and, even if you know the course is required, it is hard to learn the material when you are thinking about fighting traffic to get home or about how boring or out of date the video is.
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Compliance by patients and/or primary caregivers with patients' plans of care is another of the "never-ending stories" for home health agencies.
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The number of Americans with dementia is expected to double or triple in the next half century as the U.S. population ages.
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States will be granted "report cards" on their policies on pain management in an attempt to show how well -- or inadequately -- U.S. medicine helps cancer patients deal with chronic pain.
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This is the basic framework of the SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation) checklist developed by Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA, to improve patient safety when handing off a patient from one clinician to another.
