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The quality of nursing care will have a much bigger impact on reimbursement than ever before, as a result of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) "no pay" conditions, according to a recent analysis.
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Your hospital is likely in the process of implementing a rapid response team (RRT), if one is not already in place but the team is probably focused on adult care. Now a small but growing number of hospitals are implementing pediatric RRTs to improve the care of children.
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The Joint Commission has issued a Sentinel Event Alert on preventing accidents and injuries in the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suite
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Oral Prednisolone for Acute Gout; Adding Aliskiren to Losartan for Diabetic Nephropathy; Early Aggressive Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes Pays Off; Sublingual Immunotherapy; Methylnaltrexone for Opioid-Induced Constipation; Prucalopride for Severe Constipation
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SAN FRANCISCO Big medical companies usually have big footprints at medical conferences, and Medtronic stomped around with one of the very largest CD&D has ever seen at this year's scientific sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS; Washington).
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Medtronic (Minneapolis) in mid-June received FDA approval of its Attain StarFix OTW (over-the-wire) lead. The company said it's the first active fixation left-heart lead for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and that the lead has demonstrated a 0% chronic (meaning more than one day post-implant) dislodgement rate.
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It takes a team to change the high-risk lifestyle habits of a single individual according to a large-scale study conducted by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC; Sophia Antipolis, France) published in the June 14 issue of The Lancet.
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Applera; Celera; Berkeley HeartLab; Abbott Laboratories; Applied Biosystems; Invitrogen; Escalon Medical; Drew Scientific; JAS Diagnostics; Kardia Health Systems; Freeland Systems; Pediatrix Medical Group
