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The health community has become increasingly aware of the need for health information written at a level most patients can understand.
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If your patients aren't following their treatment plan, it may not be that they are non-adherent. It could be that they simply do not understand what they are expected to do.
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The Joint Commission's 2009 patient safety goal regarding multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) includes the following key provisions and deadlines:
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Children's hospitals participating in a benchmarking initiative have achieved significant improvement in compliance with home care requirements set forth by The Joint Commission.
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When hospitalists use discharge communication software, patients and the outpatient doctors who carry out the care have better perceptions of the quality of the discharge process, according to new research published in the August issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
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Within 45 days after daily multidisciplinary patient care conferences were instituted at North Fulton Regional Hospital, the hospital's average length of stay dropped by more than a day and excess days decreased by more than 300 days within the first quarter of implementation.
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A healthy, nonsmoking woman, age 36, waits in your examination room. While she has been married for seven years, she and her husband are not yet ready to begin their family. What contraceptive choices are available to her?
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The HIV community has been asking since 1982: "How might we go about encouraging condom use in discordant couples?" On the whole, our efforts have been a disappointing failure.
