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For IRB offices to run smoothly, employees need to work well together and count on each other when the work overflows.
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Anew study adds to the growing body of evidence that surveying people about past trauma doesn't put them at increased risk for harm.
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Primary care practice-based research networks (PBRNs) bring together physicians and clinicians in practices across the country to research how patients are treated in a primary care setting.
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An estimated 50 million Americans some of them your patients live with chronic pain caused by disease, disorder, or accident, according to the American Academy of Pain Management.
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A multidisciplinary pain management program with a strong case management focus helps members of Kaiser Permanente with moderate to severe levels of pain receive effective care and avoid using treatments that don't work.
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After being enrolled in MVP Health Care's back care program for a year, the percentage of participants reporting that their back pain did not interfere with their work increased from 10.9% to 22.9%.
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One of the most challenging issues for quality managers is demonstrating that best QI practices can actually improve outcomes. Demonstrating such success requires a good deal of time and resources. In light of this challenge, the results of a new study published in JAMA should be good news, indeed.
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Although there are signs of improvement in some conditions, differences in the quality of health care provided to men and women continue to persist, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHQ).
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When an employee at your facility reports back after an injury or illness with a physician's order for "light duty" in hand, is the prescription a guide to what the employee can do, what he or she can't do, or a chance to look at the employee's ability to contribute in a new way?
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The numbers are in and they aren't good. Data presented recently in Baltimore at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America document an inexorable increase in staph infections in the nation's hospitals.
