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March 9, 2016 – Small Changes
March 8, 2016 – Mycoplasma
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Anchor lead: A newly identified sexually transmitted infection is making the rounds, Elizabeth Tracey reports Mycoplasma genitalium is the name of a recently identified organism that is sexually transmitted and may be an important cause of infertility. Maria Trent, an …
March 7, 2016 – CMS Mandate
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Anchor lead: Do mandates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services improve healthcare? Elizabeth Tracey reports The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, abbreviated CMS, claim that innovations the federal agency instituted saved almost 90,000 lives and billions of …
March 4, 2016 – Nurse Management
March 3, 2016 – Hours Regulation
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Anchor lead: Did the federal government overregulate medical resident work hours? Elizabeth Tracey reports How many hours should a medical or surgical resident work? A new study shows that the restrictive hours imposed by the federal government, compared to a …
March 2, 2016 – Duty Hours
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Anchor lead: Does restricting how many hours a medical resident works improve safety? Elizabeth Tracey reports Patient safety was cited some years ago when the federal government stepped in to regulate the number of hours medical residents could work. Now …