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Montefiore Medical Center, based in Bronx, NY, has achieved a rare milestone; all inpatient orders including medications, lab tests, diagnostic tests, and all other clinical care orders are being entered electronically.
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While hospitals have not exactly fallen over themselves to install computerized physician order-entry systems (CPOEs), a growing number are beginning to recognize their value, says Nick Beard, MD, MS, vice president of Health Informatics for Seattle-based IDX Systems Corp., a provider of CPOE systems.
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A hospital construction project is never easy for staff, patients, or administration, but as a facility in suburban Atlanta is demonstrating, planning ahead and focusing on details can help minimize the impact on patient care and safety.
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For years, professional medical societies have warned their members that accepting the free meals, trips, and other gifts offered by pharmaceutical sales personnel can compromise physician-patient relationships and should be avoided.
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The nations spending on prescription drugs for children and young adults has soared 85% over the past five years, with spending in some categories of pediatric prescriptions jumping more than 600%, according to a report released by the pharmaceutical benefits manager Medco Health Solutions Inc., located in Franklin Lakes, NJ, and a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical giant Merck Inc.
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The list of people awaiting solid organ transplants grows, and more hospitals are turning to interdisciplinary teams of medical professionals, social workers, organ procurement experts, and family support personnel who are trained to work with families of potential organ donors to ensure that opportunities for donations are not missed. Research has shown that such efforts increase consents for organ donation.
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The patient Jan Daugherty was visiting at an Arizona long-term care facility was very near the end of his life. Barely able to move and unable to speak, he communicated only with his eyes, which brightened when she gave him a drink of water. Later during the visit, she was able to feed him three glasses of juice and two cups of ice cream.
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This is the first report from a randomized, placebo-controlled trial of tamoxifen for the chemoprevention of breast cancer in women deemed to be at high risk.
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In June a report emerged in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology that should get every obstetrical providers attention.
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Øjvind Lidegaard is an obstetrician-gynecologist in Denmark who has become an epidemiologist. His case-control studies using the Denmark Registry are recognized as being as good as can be. Lidegaard and colleagues have now published 5-year case-control studies of OCs and venous thromboembolism, and cerebral thrombosis.
