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Any hospital employee witnessing a fall should know how to document the incident clearly, says Ruth M. Maher, PT, DPT, MPT, BS, director of physical therapy at HyOx Medical Treatment Center in Marietta, GA. She suggests training employees to immediately note this information after a fall.
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In an adjuvant breast cancer trial conducted more than 20 years ago, older patients were randomized to treatment with tamoxifen and prednisone or no adjuvant therapy. Now, at 21 years of follow-up, it is clear that disease-free and overall survival remain better for those who received treatment.
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Insurance industry underwriters are relying more on risk assessments when you apply for coverage, but theyre not the only ones you have to please. The Joint Commission also has some expectations in this area, and risk managers could benefit from knowing exactly what the accrediting body wants.
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In this largest reported series of surgical Stage I UPSC patients, recurrence rates were lower than those published in previous studies, suggesting a potential benefit of comprehensive surgical staging in these patients. The risk of recurrence and the mean overall survival were similar between surgical Stage I UPSC patients who were managed conservatively and those treated with adjuvant radiation therapy.
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What should our emergency department staff do when a patient requests transfer to another facility before being examined and stabilized? Can we comply with that request without violating EMTALA?
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Martin and ONeill called attention to and commented upon a revised classification of higher-level gait disorders (HLGD) proposed by Liston and associates.
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The furor surrounding the derivation and collection of embryonic stem cells has eclipsed the many other ethical, legal, and social issues that should be examined before these therapies move from the laboratory to human clinical application, say researchers working at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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The concept that epilepsy arises from an imbalance between excitatory and inhibitory influences in epileptogenic tissue has become fundamental to further investigations of the pathophysiology of this disorder. The primary observation motivating the study of Eid and colleagues is that glutamate levels are elevated in patients with mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS), perhaps the most common cause of medication-resistant epilepsy.
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A debate that has become more heated in the 21st century is whether all embryonic research should be subject to human subject research protection and IRB review.
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New guidelines for the treatment of bacterial rhinosinusitis were published in the January supplement of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery by the Sinus and Allergy Health Partnership.