Articles Tagged With: patient
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Ethical Considerations if Doctors Persuade Patients
If a doctor thinks that an intervention is in the patient’s best interest, is it ethically acceptable to try to persuade the patient?
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Ethicists Can Ensure Goals of Care Discussions Happen Earlier
Goals of care discussions are known to reduce invasive interventions and align patient care with patient values, but conversations often occur shortly before death.
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Ethics Concerns if Patient Currently Is (or Previously Was) Incarcerated
Unique ethical issues come up with individuals who currently are (or previously were) incarcerated or whose surrogate decisionmaker is incarcerated, a recent study found.
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Some Surrogate Decision-Makers Are Unprepared — or Unaware — of Role
One of the most important goals of advance care planning is to prepare surrogate decision-makers for their role, according to Lingsheng Li, MD, MHS, a research fellow in geriatrics and palliative care at UCSF. Yet Li and colleagues often heard the opposite from surrogates. Many admitted being entirely unprepared for the decision-making process.
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Making the Business Case for Safe Patient Handling Equipment
Though every healthcare worker who handles patients is at risk of injury, it may be difficult to convince hospital administrators to purchase a sufficient inventory of safe patient lifting equipment.
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Members of the Patient Access Department Are ‘Most Exposed and Most at Risk’
Richard Sem, CPP CSC, president of Burlington, WI-based Sem Security Management, has performed security and violence management assessments at dozens of hospitals and clinics. Thirteen of the assessments were done after “active shooter” incidents occurred.
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Prepare Your Patient Access Areas For Challenges that Come after a Disaster
Patient access will face these challenges in the aftermath of mass shootings or other mass casualty incidents:
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New Standards Proposed for Patient Safety, Quality
The CMS recently proposed new standards intended to enhance patient safety and improve the quality of care in hospitals. Among several initiatives, the rule seeks to reduce overuse of antibiotics and implement comprehensive requirements for infection prevention.
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Don’t Lose Your Best Registrars To Competitors: Justify More Pay
Is another hospital, or another department, offering an experienced registrar more money? If so, patient access leaders face an uphill battle.
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Petition supports a renewed dialogue on voluntary patient safety identifier
The National Association for Healthcare Access Management has called for support for the following petition, which, at press time, was pending with the White House.