DISPOSITION OF PATIENTS REFUSING TREATMENT PREPARATION: MOTIVATION: To ensure technicians are acting in the best interest of the patient and to reduce the number of potential lawsuits against the ...

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The Cannabis Consultation Service (CCS) is an innovative pharmacist-led resource at the Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre. Its mandate is to provide education and guide patients through access and ...

BOSTON-The rehospitalization of senior patients within 30 days of discharge from a skilled nursing facility (SNF) has risen dramatically in recent years, at an estimated annual cost of more than $17 ...

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Diabetes, COPD Raise Post-Kidney Transplant Readmission Rates Patients discharged with home health or to a skilled nursing facility also were more likely to be readmitted. PHILADELPHIA—Patients ...

Drawing on more than 15 years of experience as an emergency physician and medical director, Dr. Kenneth Heinrich, a regional director and medical director of Emergency Department consulting services ...

Here are 12 tools that aim to improve patient handoff at healthcare facilities. Digital Nurse Assistant. Developed by PARC, a Xerox company, Digital Nurse Assistant is an electronic medical record ...

Fertility patients who are done having children feel responsible for the stored, frozen embryos left over from their treatment, yet more than half are against implanting the embryos in anyone else, ...

The Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation offers a free Safer Sign Out form to improve the safety of patient handoffs at the end of a shift. The Safer Sign Out protocol, originally developed by ...