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In this age of a nursing shortage, the same-day surgery program and other departments at Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, NC, enjoy the enviable reputation as a place that nurses want to work.
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This column addresses specific questions related to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) implementation.
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The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is targeting infection control as a key focus for revision of standards and enhancement of sentinel event reporting efforts.
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This issue of ED Legal Letter is the second of a four-part series related to pitfalls associated with evaluating patients with abdominal pain. The series will analyze high-risk and life-threatening disease processes that ED physicians will encounter in their daily practice. Part two explores gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding and the necessity of Hemoccult testing; the diagnosis and treatment of aortic aneurysms and abdominal trauma; and extra-abdominal causes of abdominal pain.
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One of the major changes promoted in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report Responsible Research: A Systems Approach to Protecting Research Participants, is a call for federal legislation expanding protections to all human subjects involved in research, regardless of funding or setting.
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It would seem that two recent publications by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) indicate a desire by the agency to be less stringent when it comes to the use of inducements for clinical trial participation involving Medicare and Medicaid patients.
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