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Massachusetts hospitals try to stem overdose deaths
Hospitals in Massachusetts have implemented a plan that instructs emergency providers to develop an approach to screen for substance abuse, provide brief intervention, and arrange appropriate referrals for patients who have an active substance use disorder or are at risk for developing such a problem.
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New opioid prescribing guidelines favor non-opioid alternatives
Citing a quadrupling of opioid prescriptions in recent years, the guidelines nudge providers to do more to combat the epidemic of overdose deaths.
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Sounding the Alarm About Suicide Risk
The Joint Commission urges universal screening and increased efforts to link at-risk patients to appropriate care.
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Helping Healthcare Providers Improve Assessment of Patients with Suicidal Thoughts
Healthcare providers can help identify patients at risk for suicide and ensure they receive proper care.
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Breaking the ‘conspiracy of silence’ about problem providers
Consider the following scenario – does this healthcare worker sound like someone in your facility?
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Hospitals ranked sixth in industry for serious injuries
In the first year of a new reporting requirement, medical and surgical hospitals in select states reported 221 serious injuries to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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HCWs remain at risk of TB exposures
After two decades of steady, incremental decline, tuberculosis in the United States has leveled off at some 3 cases per 100,000 people — a rate that will not result in the goal of TB elimination (less than 1 case per million), the CDC reports.
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MedPAC urges payment updates for ASCs, HOPDs
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission released its March report and recommended a 0% update for Medicare payments to ambulatory surgery centers and, as dictated by law, a 1.75% increase for hospital outpatient departments.
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Better late than never? FDA proposed ban on powdered gloves welcomed, questioned
The FDA’s recently proposed rule to ban powdered latex gloves was welcomed by occupational health advocates, but there was some sentiment that the FDA was finally addressing a problem clinicians long since had to solve themselves.
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Surgeons help patients quit smoking before surgery
A recent pilot study of vascular surgery patients found that patients facing surgery were more likely to quit smoking when their physician offered the right kind of assistance.