It's a new era for hospitals and for case managers as a multitude of auditors from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and commercial payers scrutinize patient records looking for errors.
To maintain stability and effectiveness in meetings, the following steps should be considered.
The devil is in the details when it comes to convening a successful interdisciplinary meeting.
It is expected that metrics will be available so that the contributions of case management are quantified, as outlined by Toni Cesta, PhD, RN, FAAN, senior vice president, Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, in her April 2011 Case Management Insider article "You're only as good as yesterday's discharges Strategies to demonstrate case management's value."
The April 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine contains two articles on boceprevir, a new designer molecule that has demonstrated a dramatic improvement in outcomes for patients with genotype 1 hepatitis C.
Basically, people now feel nothing is safe to eat. They don't know what choices to make.
On Feb. 15, 2011, a 30-month-old U.S.-born child of Somali descent developed a skin rash 14 days after returning from a trip to Kenya and 1 day after visiting a child care center.