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Sepsis Screening Decreases Mortality. Well, not really.

Sensible Medicine

This would mean that instituting sepsis screening would lead to escalating treatment in patients – transferring them to the ICU, escalating antibiotics, bringing in more consultants – without benefiting them. If patient data tripped the alert, an EMR pop-up message would appear for nurses and physicians.

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Planned Home Birth - Marty Makary’s Blind Spot

Sensible Medicine

A 2014 follow-up study by de Jonge analyzed 743,070 low-risk planned home and hospital births and found no significant difference in perinatal or neonatal mortality. A 2019 study by Hutton et al. could benefit from adopting elements of international models, such as formalized transfer agreements and standardized protocols.

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Babies with the DNA of Three Different People Born in the U.K.

Scrubs

Once the egg has been fertilized with sperm, it is transferred back into the womb of the mother. “The Newcastle team involved in carrying out the procedures are cautious and will have wanted to include at least some follow-up data on the babies, while also protecting the privacy of the families,” Lovell-Badge explained.

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How Volunteer Work Can Enhance Your Resume

We Care Online

Here are some situations where you might consider adding voluntary roles to enhance your resume: If youre at an early stage in your career: if youre recently qualified or youre applying for junior and entry-level positions, you might find its been difficult to build up the skills and experience required for some healthcare jobs.

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Culturally Competent Nursing Mentorship

Minority Nurse

of the American population is White, forming the majority; Hispanic and Latino Americans are the largest ethnic minority comprising 18.7%; Black or African Americans are the largest racial minority making up 12.1% Without their commitment, the relationship is not built on a trusted foundation, and all that follows may be tainted.

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Home Health Agencies Face Growing Competition as Value-Based Purchasing Expands Nationally

Relias

When determining improvement scores, the baseline year will be 2019 as opposed to 2020 due to the potential effects of COVID-19 distorting the data. Measures based on the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) contribute to 35% of the TPS and are based on the following OASIS items: Dyspnea. Toilet transferring.

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Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire

The Healthcare Blog

billion since 2019. United channeled almost $52 billion of that cash into buying health-related businesses, nearly all of which end up housed inside Optum. It is a sprawling nationwide roll-up of healthcare assets. Follow Optum’s physicians and their patients and see the future. Of Optum’s $226 billion topline, $136.4

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