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New Draft Recommendations and Checklist for Written Policies
Two leading federal agencies in human research have issued draft recommendations and a user-friendly checklist to help IRBs cope with the paperwork avalanche.
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GAO Report Takes OSHA to Task on Healthcare Violence
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ineffective enforcement programs for issuing citations and following up warnings for workplace violence in healthcare, the U.S. General Accountability Office reports.
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Best Practices, Investments Needed to Communicate Effectively with LEP Patients
There is evidence that a growing number of hospitals are beginning to realize that the kind of investments needed to accommodate limited English proficiency patients may pale in comparison to the tab for maintaining the status quo.
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Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center’s Insulin Adjustment Protocol
Nurses at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center of Spokane, WA, shared their insulin adjustment protocol for RN case managers with Case Management Advisor.
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Diabetes Insulin Protocol is Most Useful with Technology
A telehealth case management program’s use of a diabetes insulin adjustment protocol works well with technology to keep data fresh, and a commitment to assessing and adjusting as needed, according to protocol administrators.
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Diabetes Protocol is Recipe for Success in Telehealth Case Management Program
Case management can be combined with treatment-specific protocols to quickly react to patients’ medical problems, resulting in better chronic disease maintenance, administrators of a telehealth program found.
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Here’s How HealthConnections Gives Case Managers Ways to Help Patients
WellCare’s HealthConnections program helps case managers provide social service support to their patients.
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Multistate Database Connects Case Managers with Community
What if finding precisely the right answer was as simple as putting a word in a search engine?
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PCOS and Hormonal Contraception: A Tale of Two Syndromes?
Emerging evidence supports that two metabolic phenotypes exist among women with PCOS. For metabolically healthy PCOS patients, managing menstrual symptoms, anovulation and androgen excess with COCs provides a simple and well-tolerated treatment regimen. In contrast, PCOS patients with metabolic syndrome are at high risk for type 2 diabetes, and COC use may contribute to hyperinsulinemia, adverse lipid changes, and endothelial changes associated with adverse cardiovascular risk. The use of a levonorgestrel intrauterine device combined with spironolactone (to manage hyperandrogenism) and metformin (to manage hyperinsulinism) may offer advantages to metabolically unhealthy PCOS patients.
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Oligohydramnios: How to Best Diagnose It and What It Really Means
A multicenter randomized, clinical trial involving large numbers of patients has shown that using the maximal vertical pocket instead of the amniotic fluid index to detect oligohydramnios more than halves the amount of inductions for the diagnosis of oligohydramnios without affecting the overall outcome.