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How hospitals can cut admission delays by 30%

Today's Hospitalist

Key takeaways: Admission delays from the ED can adversely affect mortality, length of stay, medical errors and quality of care. One VA center reduced its admission delay by almost one-third with a series of three interventions. Such delays can compromise patient care by increasing mortality, medical errors and length of stay.

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How to Run DMC? It’s Tricky – FDA’s New Draft Guidance Provides Updated Recommendations on How to Best Use Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials

FDA Law Blog

Tobolowsky & Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & David B. Moreover, DMCs are being used in trials of modest size and in the context of increased globalization of medical product development. DMC charters have also grown longer and more detailed. They also both stressed the value of previous DMC experience.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 1: Differentiating organic versus psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status

PEMBlog

Furthermore, the connection between physical and functional symptoms is inextricably linked in many patients. Why then do we persist with the “is it medical/organic or psych” question? Diagnostic yield of head CT in pediatric emergency department patients with acute psychosis or hallucinations. Government.

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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert & Sophia R. Gibbs — For more than three decades, FDA has claimed that the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic (FD&C Act) gives the agency legal authority to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) as medical devices (see our prior post here ). Gaulkin & Jeffrey N.

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What every physician should know about care experience (and why it matters)

Permanente Medicine

They candidly discuss the unique challenges and opportunities health care organizations face in meeting patient expectations. Assistant Regional Medical Director, Care Experience Southern California Permanente Medical Group Podcast transcript Transcript is autogenerated. I joined SCPMG straight from residency in 2006.

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Self-Esteem Scores Soar One Year After Metabolic, Bariatric Surgery

Physician's Weekly

from Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania, and colleagues examined changes in patients’ internalized weight stigma before and after MBS. Patients aged 18+ who underwent primary bariatric surgery from 2006 to 2019 were identified (5,749 patients). Justin Dhyani, M.D., versus +46.9

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

The FDA-approved indications for gabapentin are only for treating patients with partial seizures or postherpetic neuralgia. valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. 2006 Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Annals of IM. Tasce: Yes.