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You probably are keenly aware of the need to comply with Joint Commission on Accredita-tion of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) requirements for performance improvement.
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In response to recommendations from the Ameri-can Heart Association (AHA), in 1999 the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations added a requirement for review of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to the hospital performance improvement standard.
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Long hours and steady salaries are current trends for health care quality managers, according to the latest Hospital Peer Review Salary Survey. Although opportunities abound for todays quality professionals, you may need additional skills to reap the benefits, say leaders in the field.
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Emergency physicians (EPs), and physicians in general, have faced enormous tests of their core professionalism and ethical values in recent years. The unionization of resident physicians, the financial pressures of a managed care environment, and the thorny role of the pharmaceutical industry have presented new and difficult challenges for medicine.
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Cephalosporins, macrolides, and fluoroquinolones currently represent foundation antimicrobials for managing common respiratory infections caused by bacterial and/or atypical pathogens.
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VIENNA, Austria The market for products used in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease in Europe is the second-largest regional market worldwide after the U.S., and has historically been the first to adopt new device technologies. Certain European countries, including a number in Eastern Europe such as Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania, rank among the highest in the world in deaths from cardiovascular disease.
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Icelandic researchers report identifying a gene that is associated with susceptibility to stroke. Their findings appear in the October issue of Nature Genetics. Co-senior author is medical geneticist and neurologist Kari Stefansson, chairman, chief executive officer and president of deCode Genetics (Reykjavik, Iceland). The basic findings are two in number, Stefansson said, One is a gene that contains variants predisposed to the common form of stroke.
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Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California) has acquired the technologies of Peoples Genetics (PGI; Woburn, Massachusetts), used for the comprehensive genetic analysis of large pooled populations of individual patient DNAs. Details of the cash transaction were not disclosed.
