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A decade ago, ECRI investigated a series of incidents in which patients were burned sometimes severely by blankets that were warmed to a high temperature and placed on body parts that either temporarily or permanently lacked sensation.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated guidelines for preventing surgical-site infections, focusing on some difficult issues in an exhaustive and largely futile attempt to find conclusive data on various practices.
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A few years back, staff suggestion boxes were a big thing. It was as if there was a burgeoning realization that people who didnt have big titles might sometimes have a good idea on how to make things better.
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Hospital intensive care units (ICUs) in the U.S. report a high level of infection prevention policies in place, but the numbers fall off sharply when actual adherence to the interventions are factored in, researchers report.
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Comparative effectiveness research (CER) has the potential to improve outcomes and lower costs, but one key ethical concern is how to best convey to patients that they are participating in research.
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There is a growing focus on identifying a core set of quality metrics that can be used to improve both palliative and end-of-life care.
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Data on physicians prescribing is routinely purchased from pharmacies, with physicians identified through information purchased from the American Medical Association.
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A growing number of clinics around the world are advertising therapeutic applications for stem cell treatments that have not been subjected to well-controlled trials.
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State laws can vary significantly regarding a providers options when responding to a whistleblower.
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As technology in genetic and genomic research expands, most if not all IRBs will face the issue of incidental findings, including how to manage them, and whether researchers have a duty to report them to study participants, experts say.