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Shingles vaccine added to CDC list of vaccines for adults 60 and older; CDC recommends Tdap for postpartum women; new study suggests sequential therapy with antibiotics for H. pylori may be more effective than standard therapy; FDA Actions.
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Elevated troponin I is a nonspecific finding, but suggests a poor prognosis regardless of its cause. These investigators from Israel sought to clarify these observations.
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Haissaguerre and his colleagues from twenty-two world-wide arrhythmia referral centers collected 206 patients with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation.
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Including patients and family members in everything from developing a plan of care to making changes in the hospital's physical appearance has paid off at MCGHealth in Augusta, GA.
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When MCGHealth was planning a new neuroscience unit at its Augusta, GA, facility, patients and family members were involved every step of the way.
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A treatment protocol and a communitywide task force are among the initiatives Harris Methodist Southwest Hospital in Fort Worth, TX, has initiated to help adults with sickle cell disease learn to manage their condition and limit their visits to the hospital.
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Patients at King's Daughters Medical Center (KDMC) in Ashland, KY, come from a three-state area creating challenges for the social workers who must find a safe discharge destination for patients, many of whom live in rural areas.
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Successful discharge planning is a much more complex process than simply moving patients safely out the door, so it follows that evaluating your discharge planning process also might be a complex proposition.
