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		<title>Best Hospitals in America: 2010-2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. News &#038; World Report recently released its 2010-2011 rankings of the best hospitals in the United States. Although its core business is the delivery of mainstream news, the U.S. News &#038; World Report is best known for its annual rankings of best colleges, graduate schools, and hospitals. Given the success of these rankings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Challenges of Medication Reconciliation and Patient Safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cost of designing, developing, and marketing a new pharmaceutical drug can literally exceed a billion dollars. Even millions more are invested in non-industry trials to demonstrate the efficacy &#8212; or lack thereof &#8212; of these drugs with certain medical conditions or clinical parameters. The process of getting FDA approval is another separate adventure in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top iPhone Medical Apps for The Wards</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The iPhone App store is a veritable treasure chest of free and cheap applications, ranging from productivity tools and reference guides to arcade games to pass the time. As of this writing, there are over 800 applications categorized as &#8220;Medical&#8221;. For the busy physician and student, wandering through the labyrinth of apps can be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discharge Summaries: Typing vs. Voice Dictations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the national push toward electronic medical records, there have been active efforts to upgrade clinical data and systems software. At some institutions, an effect of this transition is the migration from the traditional voice dictation systems or paper clinic notes to a typed electronic record. 
A recent study at the University of Toronto Faculty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Hospitals in The US &#8211; 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the core business of the U.S News &#038; World Report franchise is the delivery of mainstream news, it is best known for annual rankings of the best colleges, graduate schools, and hospitals. Like clockwork every July, the magazine just released today its rankings for the best hospitals in the United States.
The overall ranking is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 2008!</title>
		<link>http://onthewards.com/2008/01/happy-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wardslave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the new year! Unlike last year when I had the day off, this time I was on call. Although I did not feel the transition from one year to the next (it was just another day), I managed to slip a &#8220;happy new year&#8221; greeting either at the beginning or end of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Outside Hospital</title>
		<link>http://onthewards.com/2007/11/the-outside-hospital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Jones is a 65 year-old gentleman with a past medical history significant for hypertension (HTN), diabetes mellitus (DM), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and coronary artery disease (CAD), who presents from OSH with &#8230; who-knows-what?
OSH denotes an &#8220;outside hospital&#8221; from where a patient was transferred. These hospitals are generally smaller medical centers that do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Neckties &#8230; in The UK</title>
		<link>http://onthewards.com/2007/09/no-more-neckties-in-the-uk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wardslave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Health in the UK published today new guidelines for hospital  dress codes and laundering. The guidelines represent a compilation of expert opinion, scientific theory, and empiric research.
Among other recommendations, it is expected that health care personnel wear short-sleeved shirts and blouses. The sleeve cuffs presumably present a viable source for transmission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inhospitable Hospital</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wardslave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first&#8211;and hopefully, only&#8211;experience as a hospital patient occurred several years ago when I needed a minor surgical procedure performed. Although I would not want to repeat this experience, it was interesting to observe the delivery of medical care from the patient&#8217;s standpoint. It was pleasant to receive the attention and respect of the medical [...]]]></description>
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