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A recently issued report will be a boon to defendants in cerebral palsy malpractice cases, but it wont eliminate this brand of high-dollar cases or create an insurmountable burden for plaintiffs attorneys, experts say.
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Reader question: Does the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) require that our hospitals medical staff be required to provide on-call physician services 24 hours a day and 365 days a year?
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I read with interest the article about the study by the Center for Patient Advocacy involving reprocessed single-use devices (SUDs) in the February 2003 issue of Healthcare Risk Management. Included in the article is advice about obtaining informed consent when using these devices. Interesting information, but, there are other perspectives on the issue.
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For years a woman suffered from an obsessive-compulsive disorder, which she believed would be corrected through psychosurgery. The procedure resulted in complete incapacitation, and she brought suit against the provider.
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Despite the relatively frequent and probably increasing prevalence of recurrent bacterial skin infections, particularly furunculosis and cellulitis, there are few established evidence-based guidelines for their therapy and prevention. This review provides a pathophysiological approach to diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of these infections for the practicing physician and his or her patients.
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Counterfeit Procrit Uncovered by FDA Surveillance; Pharmaceutical Marketing Campaigns in Full Swing; Ambulatory Antibiotic Reduction: Take the Good with the Bad; Nefazodone Under Attack Once Again; Lindane Receives Black Box Warning; Aspirin Could Help Reduce Colorectal Adenomas
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After more than 20 years of Medicare reimbursement for hospice care, the industry has become preoccupied by clinical indicators and local medical review polices that offer guidelines for hospice admission. Too often a prospective hospice patient is defined by clinical indicators, rather than by the psychosocial characteristics that affect the quality of ones death.
