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Patient Code of Conduct Aimed at Protecting Staff
Mass General Brigham hospital in Boston recently implemented a patient code of conduct designed to protect clinicians and other staff from verbal abuse or disrespect. Such policies are becoming more common in response to harassment in healthcare workplaces.
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CMS Urges Training Staff on Preventing Violence
CMS’ recent memorandum to state survey agency directors regarding workplace safety in hospitals includes statements on training and education staff on violence prevention and mitigation.
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CMS Threatens Citations for Workplace Safety Violations
CMS recently put hospitals on notice about potential penalties regarding workplace safety with a recent memorandum to state survey agency directors. The memorandum focuses on workplace violence.
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Nurses Fired After Posting TikTok Video Disparaging Patients
A hospital in Georgia fired four labor and delivery nurses after they posted a TikTok video mocking patients they found annoying. They filmed the video while at work. The incident highlights the need to educate staff about posting inappropriate work-related comments or videos on social media.
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Pandemic-Delayed Lawsuits Are Coming to Court
The COVID-19 pandemic paused the usual flow of medical malpractice lawsuits, but it appears that is ending. Hospitals and clinicians are seeing more filings, which could put unusual pressure on risk managers, defense counsel, and insurers.
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Instituting Pediatric Readiness Standards Saves Lives
Emergency departments that fully adopted national guidelines reported lower mortality rates.
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Group Publishes Guideline for Evaluating and Treating Obesity in Young Patients
American Academy of Pediatrics offers more than a dozen evidence-based key action statements to help physicians treat children and adolescents.
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Congress Formally Ends X-Waiver Requirement
Lawmakers remove this barrier to treating opioid use disorder.
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Black and Hispanic People Are Less Likely to Receive Out-of-Hospital Bystander CPR Regardless of Cardiac Arrest Location
Based on a large U.S. registry that included information on witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, Black and Hispanic people were less likely than white people to receive bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation, independent of the neighborhood where the cardiac arrest occurred.
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Apixaban Had Lower Risk of GI Bleed than Other Oral Anticoagulants in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
In this multinational, population-based cohort study among patients with atrial fibrillation, apixaban use was associated with lower risk of gastrointestinal bleeding with similar rates of ischemic stroke or systemic embolism, intracranial hemorrhage, and all-cause mortality.