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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations recently has posted answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) about several new, revised, and updated standards in the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals.
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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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This single-center, prospective, observational study of resuscitation for in-hospital cardiac arrest reveals that the performance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation is inconsistent with current guidelines.
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In this multicenter clinical trial of patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia, a 7-day course of low-dose hydrocortisone infusion was associated with decreased signs of inflammation and significant reductions in duration of mechanical ventilation, hospital length of stay, and in-hospital mortality.
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This meta-analysis of published trials comparing HMEs and heated humidifiers found a significant reduction in VAP when they were used, particularly among patients who required more than 7 days in the ICU.
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Once intensive care practices have been well standardized, patient safety becomes one of the biggest issues in the ICU in terms of management of health care quality (affecting the outcomes of patients admitted to the ICUs). The acquisition of nosocomial infections in the ICU is known to significantly affect patient outcomes such as ICU and hospital mortality and length of ICU and hospital stays.
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Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia, FDA Actions.
