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A study conducted by Saeed Syed, MD, a hospitalist physician with Cogent Healthcare, a provider of inpatient management programs, compared results between patients treated by voluntary attending physicians and those treated by the hospitalist/clinical pharmacist team. The hospitalist/clinical pharmacist group had a 23% shorter length of stay, a 21% lower cost of medications, and 1.5 fewer medications per patient than the comparable patient group treated by the voluntary attending model.
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When Stamford (CT) Hospital began its pneumococcal vaccination screening, only about 16% of patients were being screened. In less than a year, the rate had risen to 76%, outpacing statistics from other hospitals in Connecticut.
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As daily workplace demands rise, overtaxed leaders often target other decision makers the CEO, a head nurse, technician, or doctor as the source, says a psychologist who is a conflict resolution consultant and president of TheraRising.com in Minnesota.
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Arguments, nasty comments, and demeaning behavior what health care professional cant tell stories of how some co-worker or colleague made life miserable for people just trying to do their jobs? Disruptive behavior is all too common in health care, but now experts are warning that the harmful effects fall on more than just the health care professionals.
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Risk managers must act on disruptive behavior, says the vice president and medical director at VHA in Irving, TX.
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Twenty patients died in Minnesota hospitals over 15 months from medical errors or oversights, according to a new report released recently by the state health department.
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Question: What is our obligation under EMTALA when a patient leaves the emergency department after screening but before treatment is complete?
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Thomson American Health Consultants has developed an influenza sourcebook to ensure you and your hospital are prepared for what could happen this flu season or the next.
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Personal conflicts are inevitable among co-workers. So why should a risk manager get involved? Consider the following examples of how those conflicts directly affected patient safety. These are real responses to a confidential survey.
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Many of the confidential comments from the VHA study concerning disruptive behavior concerned nurses who were afraid to call physicians at home because they knew the doctor would be angry. But thats not always because the doctor is a jerk, researchers say.
