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While you may be comfortable with menstrual suppression through use of continuous oral contraceptives (OCs), are your patients? According to results from a national survey, more than 66% of women say that they are interested in suppressing their menstrual periods, but many of them aren't sure if it's safe.
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What is your level of knowledge when it comes to genital herpes, its methods of virus transmission, risks to others, and appropriate treatment? If results of an online survey are any indication, many health care providers and patients with herpes are poorly informed about herpes.
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For Cathy Sampson, CPHRM, manager of risk management for North Memorial Healthcare in Robbinsdale, MN, the new state policy concerning non-billing for never events is no big deal. In fact, her hospital has been practicing such a policy for years.
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Nobody questions the seriousness of the nursing shortage, but so far no one has come up with a satisfactory solution. The American Academy of Nursing believes it is on the right track with a project called "Technology Targets," funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Presbyterian is laying the foundation for a program designed to facilitate organ donations in its emergency department.
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Not too many years ago, the health care industry was applauding the first hospital recipient of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
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Within months of each other, the states of Minnesota and Massachusetts established policies whereby facilities in those states will no longer bill for some or all of a list of 27 adverse events identified by the National Quality Forum as "never events."
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While U.S. hospitals continue to demonstrate overall improvement in quality and safety, they still have a long way to go in several key areas, according to Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2007.
