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Crowding is increasingly becoming a factor in litigation involving emergency department care, putting nurses and physicians at increased risk for being named in a lawsuit.
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Controversy continues to swirl around the appropriateness of emergency physicians writing holding orders (or bridge orders, as they are sometimes called) for admitted patients.
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Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a state of metabolic decompensation, secondary to insulin deficiency/resistance that is coupled with counter-regulatory hormone excess and results in varying degrees of hyperglycemia, ketoacidemia, hypertonic dehydration, and sometimes, alterations in mental status.
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How would you like to boast that one of your company's wellness programs got these results for diabetics: A 21% increase in employees achieving the American Diabetes Association goal of an A1C level under 7.0, an increase from 43.8% to 57.7% in participants meeting National Cholesterol Education Program goals for LDL cholesterol, and a 15.7% increase in the number of employees meeting recognized goals for systolic blood pressure?
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Even if you offer a variety of costly programs to get employees to exercise, participation is probably not what you wish for.
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For the first time, newly proposed guidance puts a number and a cost to the respirators needed to protect health care workers during an influenza pandemic: 480 respirators at a cost of about $240 to protect a single employee, or a single reusable elastomeric respirator with three filters at a cost of $40 per employee.
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It has been 10 years since Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore created a latex task force to address the growing numbers of latex-sensitive employees.
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Health care costs reduced $176 for every employee - a savings of $1.65 for every dollar spent on a comprehensive wellness program.
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Are your employees too busy to be safe? Too stuck in their old way of doing things to use new safety equipment?
