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Abraham Cherrix is a 15-year-old boy with Hodgkin's disease. He's also an Internet-savvy free thinker who doesn't want to do another round of chemotherapy and radiation; what he wants to do is go to Mexico for a controversial herbal treatment he hopes will cure him.
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A gravely ill Sephardic Jew came to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from his home in Israel, hoping to find a successful treatment for his terminal cancer. The treatment did not yield the results he had hoped, but chaplain Rabbi Levi Meier visited his room with something more comforting than medicine.
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Clinical trials involving gene therapy are considered to be of great enough real and potential risk that they are not attempted in children before they have been conducted with adults.
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While a key component of preventing surgical site infections is to educate staff members and physicians, don't forget that your patients and their family members need to understand the basics of infection control and infection identification.
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Question: Many of our surgeons pledged a certain number of cases they would do when we built our ambulatory surgery center last year.
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Candy stripers and pink ladies have been delivering flowers and mail to hospital patients for as long as anyone can remember, but today's volunteers are moving into other areas of the hospital where they can help outpatient surgery staff with many tasks.
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Ambulatory programs' compliance rate for 13 of the 16 applicable National Safety Patient Goals exceeded 93% in 2005. However, the remaining three goals met compliance requirements less than 89% of the time.
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Medication reconciliation, labeling medications, staff competency, and Life Safety Code requirements were all topics upon which surveyors focused for organizations surveyed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health-care Organizations in the past six months.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will publish a separate standards manual for ambulatory surgery centers that will become effective in January 2007.
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