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More than Half of 2024 Measles Cases Hospitalized
A measles outbreak continues to hit Chicago, while surveillance nationally found 113 cases in 18 states as of April 4, 2024. With cases both in the community and in migrant shelters, the Chicago Health Department reported 61 measles infections as of April 11, 2024.
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CDC Issues Alert on Spike in Meningitis
Infection preventionists should be aware of increasing cases of invasive Neisseria meningitidis, which currently are causing an 18% mortality rate and primarily infecting three risk groups: Black people, people with human immunodeficiency virus, and those in the age range of 30 to 60 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports in a public health alert.
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All In: If You Share Patients, Collaborate
A regional decolonization collaborative among hospitals and long-term care facilities that commonly share patients led to decreased infections, hospitalizations, costs, and deaths caused by multidrug-resistant organisms, researchers reported.
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Healthcare Diversity, Equity Efforts Under Attack After SCOTUS Ruling
Having seen the raw inequity the pandemic exposed in the healthcare system, one would think it has become harder to deny or rationalize the lack of diversity in caregivers and higher adverse outcomes in marginalized patient populations. But one would be wrong.
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Appellate Court Affirms Trial Court’s Grant of Summary Judgment in Drowning Case
The Georgia Court of Appeals recently upheld a trial court’s decision granting summary judgment to the defendants in a medical malpractice suit following the accidental drowning death of a patient after he was discharged from the hospital.
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Appeals Court Affirms Exclusion of Evidence and Defense Verdict After Delivery of Newborn
A recent medical malpractice case in Ohio provides an important primer on the evidence that plaintiffs can use to try to establish malpractice.
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Nursing Leaders Need Ethicists’ Help with Moral Distress
As an early career nurse in 2020, Preston H. Miller, PhD, RN, CCRN-CMC, PCCN, CFRN, experienced the many effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing practice and healthcare in general. Miller conducted a formal literature review and found that what literature did exist was qualitative in nature. “The findings of this review revealed a lack of research on moral distress among unit-based critical care nurse leaders,” says Miller.
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Ethical Informed Consent Is Challenge in NICU
Informed consent is rooted in the ethical principles of patient autonomy and shared decision-making. Suboptimal consenting practices can jeopardize patient autonomy.
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Egregious Ethics Violations Require Involvement of State Medical Boards
Ethicists address a wide array of ethical issues in the hospital setting, ranging from conflicts among clinical team members and concerns about potentially inappropriate end-of-life care. But what if a nurse or clinician reports that a physician has committed serious wrongdoing?
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Ethical Guidance if Clinicians Use Tests to Search for Covert Consciousness
Clinical professional society guidelines in America and Europe now recommend the use of advanced tests (such as functional magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalogram) to search for covert consciousness in some patients who appear behaviorally unresponsive at the bedside after severe brain injury.