Hospitals increasingly are teaching managers to look for signs of drug abuse among employees, focusing on subtle clues like talk of financial problems or more blatant signs, such as arriving to work late or failing to show up as scheduled.
Standardized language in health care is not yet universal, which can cause problems when implementing electronic health records (EHRs) in an employee health setting.
Concussion and mild traumatic brain injury have a risk of serious short- and long-term sequelae.
Concussion is a trauma-induced alteration in mental status, which does not necessarily involve loss of consciousness.
The authors concluded that physical examination signs of congestion are important prognostic indicators in the modern therapeutic milieu of congestive heart failure.
In diabetes-related complications in the United States from 1990-2010, the incidence of myocardial infarctions and death has decreased by 68%, stroke and amputation has declined by 50%, while end-stage renal disease has declined by 28%.
