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Current pharmacologic reperfusion for acute myocardial infarction primarily involves the administration of fibrinolytic therapy. Recently, investigators have focused on combining fibrinolytic agents with platelet inhibitors, such as the glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor agents, to reduce complications and improve clinical outcome.
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The authors of this study proposed and tested the following clinical decision rule: Patients presenting to the ED after a deliberate overdose do not need paracetamol level testing if they: a) deny paracetamol ingestion; b) present with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 15; c) understand English; and d) have not consumed an excessive amount of alcohol.
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In 1930, Wolff, Parkinson, and White described the combination of bundle-branch block, abnormally short PR interval, and paroxysms of tachycardia occurring in young, healthy patients with normal hearts.
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Thomson American Health Consultants offers the Hospital Handbook on Smallpox Vaccination, a facilitywide resource for the information you need about smallpox vaccination in most health care facilities.
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Translating medical information for patients who dont speak English has always been a difficult issue for health care providers, but evidence is mounting to suggest that health care providers risk major lawsuits from medical errors traced to inadequate translation.
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The National Quality Forum (NQF) announced recently that it had approved 26 safe practices that should be universally utilized in health care to reduce the risk of adverse events. Four additional practices will continue to be evaluated and may be approved in the coming months.
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Recent news reports of patients who lived for months with surgical items mistakenly left in them has spurred the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) to urge that such incidents be reported to the national system it has set up to record such errors.
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There is an extremely high level of confusion, misunderstanding, frustration, anxiety, fear, and anger in a broad range of people and organizations as the April 14 compliance date for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule nears. Thats the finding of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, a statutory public advisory body to the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the area of health data and statistics.
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If youre not moving, start. On April 14, covered entities under HIPAA are expected to be in compliance with the new Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information.
