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Data Indicate Hospital Stays Are Longer, Causing Discharge Delays
As patients wait longer to take the next step along their journey through the healthcare continuum, costs mount for providers.
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WHO Lobbies for Updated Tuberculosis Vaccines
International organization says these investments could drive economic growth, improve health equity and antimicrobial stewardship, and lower mortality rates.
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Congress Issues Special Report on COVID-19 Pandemic
A select subcommittee exhaustively detailed what went wrong and offered suggestions on how to prevent future disasters.
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Quality Improvement Programs Can Shrink Surgery’s Environmental Footprint
Even simple initiatives can help departments cut waste and save money.
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Housing Instability Associated with Longer Hospital Stays, Higher Costs
New data reveal some insight on a key social determinant of health.
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Ethical Use of Restraint Hinges on Decision-Making Capacity
The situation becomes ethically complex if the patient’s capacity is unclear, ambiguous, or fluctuating. It is much harder to know if, when, and how to avoid inflicting harm while balancing the patient’s legal and ethical right to make their own decisions.
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Updated Ethics Guidance on Medical Informatics
Privacy, security, informed consent, and conflict of interest are ethical issues in healthcare that also are relevant in the health informatics field. A revised code of ethics from the American Medical Informatics Association addresses these and other concerns.
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Healthcare on 2022 Midterm Ballots
Reproductive rights, healthcare business, integrative medicine top of mind for voters in several states.
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CDC Tries Less Rigid Approach to Opioid Prescribing Guidelines
Agency underscores voluntary nature of its recommendations, highlights new science and collaboration that went into the revisions.
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ED Violence Pushes Out Top Employees
While multiple factors can figure into an emergency provider’s decision to leave his or her profession, receiving threats or winding up as assault victims while on the job easily can be the final straw. Those who work in the ED say the violence in this setting is only growing worse.