Articles Tagged With: consensus
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End-of-Life Care Should Not Vary Depending on Provider
Clinicians must be careful about imposing medical staff priorities over patients’ priorities. Making presumptions is dangerous. Ethicists can help by explaining the provider’s responsibility to offer accurate information.
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Add More Screening Tools to Case Management Toolbox
Case managers need tremendous tools to help them manage care of chronically ill patients along the continuum, she notes. It is important that case managers use evidence-based tools in their practice, outcomes, and decisions.
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Anticoagulation Decisions in Atrial Fibrillation
Using the Delphi method of arriving at a consensus among clinicians concerning to whom with atrial fibrillation to recommend oral anticoagulants, the risk of stroke, the risk of hemorrhage, and patient-specific factors emerged. Many of these factors are not included in the guidelines and should be studied further.
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Supplement to anesthesia consensus statement
SmartTots has issued a supplement to its recent revised consensus statement on anesthesia and young children in response to a clinical trial’s preliminary outcome that found no difference in the developing brain between 2-year-olds who had undergone general anesthesia and those who had received regional anesthesia as infants.