“Health care workers have a special ethical and professional responsibility to protect and prioritize the health and well-being of those they are caring for."
A possible severe influenza season is on the horizon, in part because COVID-19 shutdowns and precautions led to a historically low flu season in 2019-2020.
Of all the glitches and communication errors in the pandemic response, this is one of the more surprising. Only a month before the ACIP vote, Anthony Fauci, MD, was proclaiming at a White House briefing that “The booster mRNA immunization increases antibody titers by at least tenfold."
A new survey reveals ED workers — particularly resident physicians — experience a high rate of verbal and physical assaults. Various new policies, including from The Joint Commission, aim to curtail these incidents.
When a young woman with few conventional atherosclerotic risk factors presents to the ED with possible cardiac symptoms, clinicians are urged to consider spontaneous coronary artery dissection, according to a recent American Heart Association scientific statement.
In a new study, researchers from the Department of Veterans Affairs offer insight into which patients are most likely to end up in the ED because of hypoglycemia stemming from prandial insulin use.
Usually, a head CT is not necessary for diagnostic purposes in children with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), according to new guidelines from the CDC. Instead, these recommendations suggest clinicians use validated clinical decision rules to identify children with mTBI at low risk for intracranial injury, as well as those at higher risk for the condition who require a head CT.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently proposed a change to the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The goal is to move accountable care organizations toward a system in which they share in savings they generate but also are responsible for repaying shared losses.
Medical device manufacturer AngioDynamics Inc. will pay the federal government $12.5 million to resolve allegations that it used misleading statements to promote two of its products, causing healthcare providers to submit false claims to federal healthcare programs.
The Detroit-based William Beaumont Hospital system has agreed to pay the federal government $84.5 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it fostered improper relationships with eight referring physicians, violating the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law.
Prime Healthcare Services Inc. (along with Prime Healthcare Management Inc. and Prime Healthcare Foundation Inc.) will pay the federal government $65 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that 14 of its California hospitals admitted patients who could have been treated as outpatients.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule under which Medicare payments and quality reporting would change for home health agencies.
