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PATIENT SAFETY IN OFFICE SETTINGS – FALLS PREVENTION
Falls are every provider’s responsibility to prevent in every venue of practice. One out of every three older persons fall every year. Continue reading
TEAM-BASED CARE: A Way to Achieve Stellar Clinical Outcomes and Provide Access
Physicians in primary care are inundated with patient demands for services including preventive care, chronic disease management, and acute care Continue reading
Patient Safety in Office Settings – Infection Prevention
Patients walk through your doors every day with active infections, carriage of infections or susceptibility to infections. Continue reading
Patient Safety in Office Practice – Test Result Management
Primary care physicians order a lot of tests – to diagnose complaints, to monitor chronic diseases, to check medication levels, to screen for health risks and early disease. Continue reading
PATIENT SAFETY IN THE OFFICE – MEDICATION SAFETY
Two out of every three office visits results in a prescription. Each year over 1.3 billion drugs are prescribed Continue reading
PATIENT SAFETY IN OFFICE PRACTICE – A NEW SERIES
What can go wrong in the office? Isn’t patient safety something that hospitals, and to a lesser extent, nursing homes should be worrying about? Continue reading
The Greatest Gift
With the holidays just around the corner, we look forward to spending time with our families. Children returning home from college or parents visiting from out of town make this time even more precious than ever. The season is a time to be together, catch up with friends and other family, and to give thanks. Continue reading
Too Clean or Not Too Clean: The Hygiene Hypothesis
The Hygiene Hypothesis is a theory that suggests a young child’s environment can be “too clean” to effectively stimulate the developing immune system to respond to various “threats” such as allergens Continue reading
Colorectal Cancer Screening Update
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer related deaths in the United States. Continue reading