Articles Tagged With: evaluation
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The Optic Nerve as Part of the Diagnostic Criteria for Multiple Sclerosis
A recent prospective study showed that including the optic nerve as an additional topographic area in multiple sclerosis diagnostic decision-making improves sensitivity and diagnostic performance compared to the McDonald 2017 criteria: 92.5% sensitivity of the modified criteria vs. 88.2% of the current criteria.
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Lack of EP Evaluation of Chest Pain Can Lead to Disaster
If an emergency physician never evaluates such a patient, leaving the care solely to a physician assistant or a nurse practitioner, this could lay the foundation for litigation.
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Bioethics Field Lacks Standardized Competencies for Trainees
The hope is that training programs will find a way to evaluate not only trainees’ progress, but also the adequacy of their programs in training people to work in the field of bioethics.
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Healthcare Planning for the Lone Senior
Social isolation is a life-and-death matter, believed to influence mortality as much as obesity and smoking. Yet amid the growing population of seniors, many are unmarried, widowed, or have no children living nearby. When discharge planning for the lone senior, case managers should know several points about this demographic.
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More Than 300 Clinical Ethicists Have Earned HEC-C Credential
One year in, the program is popular, but questions remain regarding the certification's importance to administrators when they are evaluating skills and making hiring decisions.