Are You Ready for Another Paradigm Shift?

Mechanical bowel preparation: are we ready for a paradigm shift?

which however actually did not happen. On the contrary, serious questions were raised on the accuracy of these RCTs. Unfortunately, none of these actually met the CONSORT guidelines completely. A historic meta-analysis by Bucher et al. [3] evaluating seven RCTs concluded that there was no evidence to support the use of MBP in patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery. Though it was the hi...

Are you ready for SM358?

Read through these notes and work through all the questions in Sections 3 and 4. This is a useful exercise for all prospective students of the module, even those who have studied other Open University science and mathematics modules and who have followed the recommended prior study routes for SM358 (see Section 2 below). Working through these notes and questions will serve as a reminder of some...

Are You Ready for a HIPAA Audit?

Title XIII of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) includes the subsection known as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. In addition to its incentives for health care organizations to adopt electronic health records (EHRs), HITECH extended the scope of the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the Security Rule, increased penalties for failing t...

Are you ready for Joint Commission?

Are you ready for the next step?