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Question: How much should our risk management department take responsibility for preventing slips and falls in the facility, as opposed to letting environmental services handle that issue? I know were responsible for any resulting litigation, but shouldnt prevention really be their job, not mine?
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A new survey of physicians, nurses, and hospital administrators suggests that malpractice concerns are leading to the practice of more and more defensive medicine. Large numbers of medical doctors report that they order more tests, refer more patients, prescribe more medication, and suggest biopsies more often than is necessary because of concerns about malpractice.
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News: A woman died following a liver biopsy performed at an outpatient facility by a resident physician. The resident was inexperienced and punctured her lung. Unaware of the injury, the resident and supervising physician left the patients bedside, and shortly thereafter she aspirated on her own blood and died.
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News: After a hospital hired a patient care technician who had a rape conviction, suit was brought against the hospital by a patient alleging sexual assault by the hospital employee.
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Women older than age 70 comprise 15-20% of breast cancer patients. Some of these older patients may not be able to tolerate or do not desire the standard surgical procedures of either lumpectomy or mastectomy.
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In a multicenter, Italian, randomized, phase III trial, single-agent vinorelbine or gemcitabine proved to be as effective as a combination of the 2 agents in the treatment of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer occurring in patients 70 years and older.
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Postmenopausal estrogen-progestin therapy increased the risk of breast cancer in a population-based cohort in Sweden, and estrogen-only did not.
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Platinum-based adjuvant chemotherapy improved overall survival and recurrence-free survival at 5 years in this combined group of patients with early-stage ovarian cancer defined by the inclusion criteria of the ICON1 and ACTION trials.
