The surgical team began to investigate how they could improve patient outcomes using techniques that are designed to streamline patient care delivery. ... To make certain this prompt would be successful the research team highlighted the names of patients for whom antibiotics were recommended according to national guidelines on the OR schedule (White & Schneider, 2007). Additionally the research teams brought the surgeons, infection control, and risk management on board to ensure the program's success. ...

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Until the 1990's when the informed consent was brought into policy, patients did not have a choice as to what treatment they were to receive. ... Ira Brock, a team leading physician of advanced illness at Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., told reporters at 60 Minutes that many patients can spend months in the intensive care unit in the final days of their lives, (The Cost of Dying 2009). ...

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Advances in medical technology have done a great deal to produce miraculous cures and recoveries. In some circumstances however, these advances have created problems for the elderly. More aggressive technology approaches are used to extend the life of the elderly. On the whole the elderly, as well a...

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