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Anonymous — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:17:00 -0000

If Tom Brady can get a surgical site infection with a world calls surgeon then if is not a "never" evenet. Nuff said.

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DrWes — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:47:00 -0000

Happy,

Nice post, dude. This is why you rock.

Merry Christmas.

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The Refugee — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:59:00 -0000

I say we come up with our own report.

"85% of hospital administrators are tools".

I promise you... I can come up with a "study" with just as much statistical clout.

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Anonymous — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:04:00 -0000

Time to call out the OIG and anyone else who is pandering to a political audience by flacking faked "research" and other garbage and then releasing the "results" as news. Arbitrarily calling extended hospitalization (extended from what exactly, do they think patients book a stay as in a hotel, or are they using the pseudo-objective "standard" of the DRG?) Call them out. They're liars and touts. They aren't researchers. Their work isn't scientific. They're frauds.

How about the next headline: "OIG accused of publishing fraudulent studies--government agency cited for making up "evidence" for political purposes"

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Anonymous — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:59:00 -0000

Not a stastics guru, but the sample size seemed too small to extrapolate.

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midwest woman — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:01:00 -0000

the event is not automatically adverse...each has its own unique components...can't put square pegs into round holes

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Braden — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:11:00 -0000

The solution, of course, is to enforce more unfunded mandates and ratchet down on regulations. I think if we increase the amount of paperwork involved, this may help as well.

Ultimately, though, if we had less nurses and doctors, then there would be less people to make errors, thereby cutting down on the rate of such events.

I hope the OIG takes my advice into consideration.

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Anonymous — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:42:00 -0000

Inevitably this will WORSEN care & overburden nurses, and nurses' superiors, and their superiors, etc. with yet more paperwork & thicker charts filled with BULLSHIT. This will take up more time, and actually prevent nurses & doctors from caring for patients.

Already hospitals & doctors' offices are strapped caring for the 75-yr-old medicare patient with CAD/CHF/BPH/Afib who feels dizzy every 3 weeks. Once pushed to the edge, more will inevitably close or downsize staff.

Then the OIG & everyone else can care for grandma at home, where the care is uniquely wonderful and she will NEVER develop pneumonia, a UTI, hypoglycemia, or even fall!

Then we'll all be much happier and avoid the nasty hospitals.