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Comorbidities Influence Optic Outcomes in NMOSD

Physician's Weekly

Data was collected from 22 centers across North and South America, Asia, and Europe, following STROBE reporting guidelines. The dataset, acquired between 2000 and 2018, comprised OCT and clinical metadata.

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How hospitals can cut admission delays by 30%

Today's Hospitalist

One VA center reduced its admission delay by almost one-third with a series of three interventions. Those interventions included standardizing both bed assignments and nursing handoffs while having ED providers—not an inpatient team—enter skeletal orders when deciding to admit a patient.

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 It’s Tricky – FDA’s New Draft Guidance Provides Updated Recommendations on How to Best Use Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials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

Clissold — The trio of CDER, CBER, and CDRH released a new draft guidance titled “ Use of Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials ” that revises the 2006 guidance “Establishment and Operation of Clinical Trial Data Monitoring Committees” and, when final, will replace the 2006 guidance.

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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. In: Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 5th, Fleisher GR, Ludwig S, Henretig FM (Eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia 2006. We have developed a series of pain focused episodes. Government.

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

FDA Law Blog

Indeed, recent jurisdictional developments suggest that a wide of array of stakeholders could have standing to challenge the Agency’s attempt to restrict access to commonly used LDTs, including individual laboratories, hospitals, physicians and healthcare providers who routinely use these tests, and patients who depend on them.

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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. Today we are talking about the patient care experience specifically here at Kaiser Permanente, but also in general. I joined SCPMG straight from residency in 2006. AM: Thank you so much.

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Documenting and honoring preferred place of death in oncology hospice patients [Palliative and end-of-life care]

Annals of Family Medicine

A US-based study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation found 69% of patients reported avoiding discussions about death, but 92% reported feeling somewhat comfortable talking to a heath care provider about EOL wishes. Setting or Dataset: Outpatient palliative care cancer clinic at a tertiary health care center in the U.S.

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