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Failure to Treat High Blood Pressure Results in Kidney Failure, $31 Million Verdict
A critical lesson from this case focuses on the legal concept of comparative negligence, which concerns whether a patient’s own negligent conduct played a role in causing or worsening his or her injury.
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Cameras Help Monitor Compliance, Reduce Patient Falls
A health system based in Florida has found using cameras can improve compliance with quality and safety efforts, especially when the camera includes a speaker for communicating with people.
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Program Trains Administrative Staff to Prevent Falls
A health plan in California is providing fall prevention training to medical office staff. Nonclinical staff often are overlooked in fall prevention efforts.
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Google/Ascension Partnership Shows HIPAA Gray Areas
The Office for Civil Rights is investigating a huge data-sharing project between Google and Ascension, one of the country’s largest nonprofit health systems, in a case that analysts say highlights the uncertainties of exactly what is and is not allowed under HIPAA.
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Nurses Require Their Own Education on Malpractice Prevention
Nurses often are undereducated on malpractice prevention and risk management because efforts focus more on physicians. Education focused on nursing concerns can help reduce the risk for themselves and their employers.
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Hospital Realizes Value of Disaster Planning When Bus Crashes
A small hospital in a town of 1,500 residents was the main facility receiving patients after a serious bus crash. The hospital coordinated with other facilities in the health system to manage the incident.
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First Entirely Disposable Duodenoscope Receives Approval
A one-use device needs no reprocessing, eliminating potential infection risk.
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Cefiderocol Injection (Fetroja)
Cefiderocol should be prescribed to treat complicated urinary tract infections, including pyelonephritis, in adults ≥ 18 years of age with limited or no alternative treatment options.
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Vegetarians and Stroke
A recent study revealed vegetarians have a 22% lower incidence of ischemic heart disease, but a 20% increased incidence of total stroke, mostly related to hemorrhagic stroke, when compared to meat eaters.
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Clostridioides difficile Infection: Fecal Microbiota Transplantation vs. Antibiotics
Relative to vancomycin or metronidazole treatment of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, treatment with fecal microbiota transplantation is associated with a lower risk of bloodstream infection, shorter hospital length of stay, and improved survival.