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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) have announced the formation of the Partnership for Human Research Protection (PHRP) to offer a new accreditation program that will seek to protect the safety and rights of participants in clinical trials and research programs in public and private hospitals, academic medical centers, and other research facilities in the United States and abroad.
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The lofty vision of Baptist Health Care Corp. of Pensacola, FL, is to be the best health system in America. It may well be on its way. According to one authoritative source, Baptist Health may at the very least be the best health care employer in the entire country.
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Conventional wisdom - and indeed, much literature - supports the idea that satisfied patients are impressed with short waiting times, good parking, convenient locations, and sophisticated equipment.
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FDA Issues Black Box Warning Based on WHI Study; ALLHAT: Thiazide for Hypertension Treatment; Candesartan Effective Against Migraines; Cough! No Cold Relief from Echinacea; COX-2 Inhibitors and GI Benefits Could Be Overrated; FDA Actions;
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Challenged by increasingly stringent documentation requirements, many emergency departments are turning to template charting systems as a way to cut documentation time, eliminate transcript costs, and ensure accurate coding.
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Unsatisfied with the quality and the cost of the template charting system they were using, emergency department personnel at the Medical College of Georgia and Childrens Medical Center in Augusta went their own way, creating a limited number of broad-based templates.
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Using the balanced scorecard concept, the multidisciplinary Emergency Services Performance Improvement Team at WakeMed health system in Raleigh, NC, was able to standardize the way data were collected and presented.
