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The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) has established an Integrative Medicine Consult Service at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center.
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Kim YHK, Bowers J. Efficacy of acupuncture for treating depression. Altern Ther Women's Health 2007;9(7):49-53.
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"We know about 1 in 200 patients get admitted to hospital following outpatient surgery, but that rate can easily vary. Outpatient surgery centers are going to continue pushing the envelope, and it is imperative that patients and physicians take control back.
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Keeping the right people on your staff is important to any outpatient surgery program's success, and making sure that paychecks, benefits, retirement plans, and 401Ks are handled properly is essential to employee satisfaction.
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It's estimated that 5.5 million workers are potentially exposed to hazardous drugs or drug waste at their worksites, ranging from manufacturing and shipment of the drug to receiving it at a hospital, storing it, delivering it to patients, and disposing of it.
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A recent memorandum from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allows, in some situations, the use of batteries for essential electrical equipment in an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) in the event of a power failure.
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Your emergency preparedness plan identifies your plan of action for disasters related to weather, fire, and even pandemics, but if your plan only focuses on what you do within your own program, you may not meet surveyors' expectations.
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The most commonly documented interventions made by pharmacists caring for emergency department patients included provision of drug information, dosage adjustment recommendations, responses to questions from nursing staff, formulary interchanges, and suggestions on initiating drug therapy, researchers found.
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Pediatric patients can be particularly vulnerable to medication errors, but tragedies like that described on a recent national news program can be averted if the factors that lead to such errors are understood and addressed by pharmacists and their clinical partners.
