A bill further empowering patients with respect to their health care that allows physician assistants to sign, modify, or revoke Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) forms in the ...

Ask physicians if our messed up malpractice system causes them to practice “defensive medicine,” and most will probably say yes – hard not to be paranoid with so many lawsuits affecting so many ...

Eighty-two percent of physicians are not compensated for prescriptions, lab tests, diagnostic imaging, hospital admissions and facility/surgery fees, according to a new survey conducted by Jackson ...

At its Aug. 29-31, 2012 meeting, the Texas Medical Board disciplined 55 licensed physicians and issued one cease and desist order. The disciplinary actions included 22 orders based on quality of care ...

Are Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatments the Answer to the End-of-Life Care Quality Conundrums in Cancer Care? The following represents disclosure information provided by authors of this ...

If we consider a physician order for a medication in a legacy environment, we could track the progress of the order from the physician's pen in the chart to the nurse or floor clerk who retrieves the ...

Although the concept of evidence-based order sets was introduced many years ago, healthcare providers are moving toward adopting evidence-based order sets in increasing numbers and integrating such ...

To submit a legal/professional nursing question for future consideration, write to the editor at [email protected] (Include "Ask the Expert" in subject line.) A nurse who has encountered situations in ...

Nagaindra Srivastav of Tampa, Fla., has been sentenced to nine years in prison and ordered to pay more than $48 million in restitution after he was convicted of conspiracy to pay and receive kickbacks ...

Many patients with advanced cancer receive aggressive treatment near the end of life. The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is an innovation that converts patient preferences ...

A few weeks ago I toured a hospital that had recently adopted computerized physician order entry (CPOE). We visited a patient room on the Med-Surge floor, where a nurse explained what happens in an ...