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Why has The Joint Commission backed away from medication reconciliation for 2009? "Basically because they realized it's very, very, very hard to do.
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Hays, KS-based Hays Medical Center was accredited by The Joint Commission for more than 30 years, but in November 2008 decided to go with Houston, TX-based DNV Healthcare.
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"This has been the single most difficult process I have ever worked on to try to implement," says John Benson, PharmD, quality manager, department of pharmacy services at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, UT.
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Barnes-Jewish Hospital submitted its medication reconciliation initiative as a poster for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
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Wayne Memorial Hospital in Goldsboro, NC, was surveyed Jan. 26-30, 2009. But the 316-bed hospital, prepares for its survey just about every other day of the year.
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Approximately 10% of international travelers are children (classified as those 18 years of age or younger in this study). As we note that more children are traveling, the number of malaria cases in travelers also is increasing.
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Schlagenhauf, et al. utilized the standardized Profile of Mood States (POMS) questionnaire to conduct a randomized, double-blind, four-arm study with placebo run-in phase to compare moods and feelings in travelers using chemoprophylaxis.
