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A man walked into an ED, told several nurses he was a doctor, and asked for a patients room number. The nurses showed him the room, where he proceeded to look through the patients medical charts. Theres only one problem: The man wasnt a doctor!
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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of this summers heat wave was that it not only affected areas that were accustomed to extreme heat, such as Phoenix, but many that were not, including northern states such as Pennsylvania and Michigan. In areas such as these, creative protocols and processes, along with a healthy dose of preparation, can help you through these crises with a minimal impact on throughput and patient care, ED managers say.
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ED managers should avoid evaluation and management (E&M) level decision matrix or scoring tools that use ED procedures (intravenous lines, injectables, laceration repairs, or ancillary tests) as part of their level determination, says Marty Karpiel, MPA, FACHE, FHFMA, president of Karpiel Consulting Group in Long Beach, CA.
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Methamphetamine use continues to pose major problems for public health officials from large coastal cities to the nations rural heartland as study after study observes high-risk sexual behaviors among people who use the illicit drug.
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Investigators presented evidence at the International AIDS Society (IAS) conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in late July that male circumcision helps to reduce the risk of HIV infection among men who have sex with women.
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In rural Southern states such as South Carolina, the HIV/AIDS epidemic primarily affects low-income African American people who live miles from an urban health care clinic and the high-tech prevention services available in large cities.
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While clinicians and HIV/AIDS patients anxiously watch the trend of the virus developing resistance to multiple antiretroviral therapies, the question remains whether new drug research will continue to save the day.
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A couples adherence program called SMART for Sharing Medical Adherence Responsibilities Together significantly improves medication adherence over typical care, a recent study shows.1 SMART encourages HIV sero-discordant couples to support each other with both HIV prevention and the infected partners medication adherence.
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The Food and Drug Administration announced in July the tentative approval of zidovudine tablets manufactured by Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. of Guragon, India.
