Sigma Theta Tau International (the honor society of nursing) and Nursing Spectrum (a communications company and division of Gannett, Inc.) have announced that they have partnered to develop professional development conferences for nurses across...

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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAHO) "categorically rejects" the findings of University of Michigan researchers regarding the relevance of JCAHO accreditation to patient outcomes, as reported in Daily Capsules earlier this...

In response to The Leapfrog Group's survey of urban hospitals (Click here to see the survey), the Society of Critical Care Medicine questions the feasibility of implementing the ICU staffing standard recommended by Leapfrog. As the leading...

FamilyPractice.com announces the addition of a four-part Lecture Series titled ``Drug Diversion and Abuse: The Facts'' to be featured in the Virtual Lecture Hall on its Web site. Click here to visit the site...

Hospital accreditation is a poor predictor of the quality of patient outcomes, according to a new study by two University of Michigan School of Public Health researchers...

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The American Heart Association, Dallas, Texas, has launched Rapid Access Publication, a new process providing Internet publication ahead of print for journal articles from Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association...

The 69th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons will take place in Dallas, February 13-17, 2002. The scientific program features 320 scientific podium presentations, 31 symposia and over 175 Instructional Courses...

Pharmaceutical and biotech companies will convene at the ``New Pharmaceutical Chemistry Accelerating Drug Discovery'' Conference & Exposition in Orlando, FL on April 4th and 5th right before the American Chemical Society National meeting to...