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Before giving a stroke patient tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), you must consider not only whether the patent is a candidate, but also whether the setting is appropriate, says Edward Jauch, MD, MS, assistant professor in the department of emergency medicine at University of Cincinnati and a member of the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Stroke Team.
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Imagine this e-mail from one of your colleagues being Exhibit A at your malpractice trial: "You misdiagnosed Jane Doe with indigestion last night and she showed up this morning on my shift with a heart attack and didn't live. Since this is your third time to miss this sort of thing, you really need to pay better attention."
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This is the second part of a three-part series on using financial data to demonstrate the value of occupational health programs. This month, we explore how to show that occupational health programs impact business objectives.
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If an employee is morbidly obese, drug-impaired, or chronically sleep-deprived, you would probably suspect that this individual is at greater risk for injury or illness in the workplace. But what if the worker is part-time or hired on a temporary basis?
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One in six Americans, which is almost 36 million people, have never had their cholesterol checked, according to new statistics from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
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An exercise designed to test laboratory readiness for a bioterrorism incident turned into a real-life disaster of another sort when specimen mislabeling and flagrant breaches in infection control resulted in several exposures to an attenuated vaccine strain of Brucella abortus RB51, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports (CDC).
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In the world of tuberculosis screening, sometimes an unfortunate series of events leads down the path toward inappropriate treatment. Consider this real-life scenario: the antigen had changed; the tuberculin skin test (TST) reader was inexperienced; and the employees, in this case firefighters, were in a low-risk community in Mississippi.
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The moment a nurse tries to help a heavy-set, medically fragile patient stand and walk is fraught with risk. With one miscalculation, the patient can fall, and the nurse or the patient - or both - might be seriously injured. Workers' compensation claims may be expensive and annoying.
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The availability of genetic testing is expanding rapidly so rapidly that information is available before there are safeguards in place concerning how it can be used. In recent months, home test kits, with which users are told they can determine genetic predisposition to bipolar disorders or determine paternity, have come on the market.
