have voted to unionize. The nurses have been organizing for four months and will begin the bargaining process for their first contract with the hospital once votes are certified, according to a ...

The discharge medication list in the hospital summary document was compared against the patient's home medications list, inpatient medication profile (active medication orders on the day of ...

This bill does carry the force of law and is advanced under what’s known as the “reconciliation” process, often referred to as a reconciliation bill. This process typically takes months.

With so many medication options available, finding the best one for you may take some time and patience. A doctor will work with you to find the best treatment plan for you, which may include one ...

Psychological trauma is a response to an event that a person finds highly stressful, such as an experience in a war zone, a natural disaster, or an accident. Trauma can cause a wide range of ...

The House Budget Committee is set to mark up a budget resolution for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 that would facilitate the beginning of the budget reconciliation process to extend the expiring provisions of ...

Still, finding the right medication can take some trial and error, as not all medications work for all people. Sometimes, your antidepressant might stop working as well as it did in the past.

Process mapping, an underused methodology in healthcare, can rapidly diagnose inconsistencies, gaps and overlaps in care processes and form the basis of ... better quality and efficiency.

Two groups of patients were compared: US Veterans Affairs (VA) patients, with an EHR, and non-VA patients, without an EHR, on the following measures: (1) medication prescribing discrepancies at ...

Results We identified a wide range of mechanisms through which carrying medication lists can improve medication safety. These included improving the accuracy of medicines reconciliation ... asked if ...

These infections are typically easily treated. More serious infections can be more challenging to treat and can lead to an extended hospital stay and serious illness. It is these more severe ...

The hospital pharmacy is central to the above workflow as it is here where the order is electronically received from the CPOE, the medication is compounded and the individual and unique barcode with ...