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B-type Natriuretic Peptide Is Less Useful in Elderly Patients With Dyspnea
Among patients ≥ 80 years of age presenting with acute dyspnea, B-type natriuretic peptide level was not useful for differentiating cardiac vs. respiratory etiologies when added to a model of clinical predictors.
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Advance Care Planning Must Advance Forward
Advance care planning is a continual process of preparing for future medical care in case patients are unable to make his or her own decisions. It includes engaging patients and families to reflect on patients’ personal goals, values, and belief systems, which ultimately translate into informing medical care. This process helps prepare the patient for current and future decisions regarding medical treatment. Data show that Americans have fallen behind on this process.
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Changes to Readmissions Rule Will Help, But No Panacea
A significant number of hospitals are set to benefit from changes in how CMS calculates penalties under the value-based Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), but the proposed rule won’t solve all their problems related to readmissions, says Bill Bithoney, MD, formerly CEO, CCO, and CMO at Sisters of Providence Health System in Springfield, MA, and now a managing director at BDO International consulting in New York City.
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Initiating Medication-assisted Treatment for Patients Presenting With Opioid Withdrawal
With a new report showing dramatic surges in both ED visits and hospital admissions because of problems related to opioid misuse, it’s clear that current approaches to the problem are not sufficient.
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Look to Social Determinants of Health When Building Post-acute Ties in ACOs
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) that involve case management in the entire care continuum often build post-acute care relationships to help their teams find solutions to patients’ social determinants of health issues.
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Opioid Overutilization Management Program Paves Way for Success
Healthcare organizations could learn a great deal about developing an opioid management program by following some of the best practices created as a result of the federal Medicare mandate for health plan sponsors.
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Pain Management in Workers’ Comp Has Evolved to a Holistic Approach
Psychosocial aspects of chronic pain are much better understood today than a generation ago. What healthcare organizations now know is that each person’s pain after an injury or surgery is different.
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Case Management’s Role in Curbing Opioid Epidemic Increases
Opioid addiction resulted in more than 33,000 U.S. overdose deaths in 2015, making drug overdose the No. 1 cause of accidental death in the nation. The overdose death rate has quadrupled since the 1990s, as have sales of prescription painkillers, according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
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Medical Marijuana Inc. Moves Forward With Proof of Concept Study
Medical Marijuana Inc. announced it is working with an Israel-based contract research organization to begin a clinical proof of concept study with its cannabidiol and gabapentin chewing gum product to treat restless leg syndrome in patients.
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Pregnant Pause: Time to Push ‘Play’ on Trials With Expectant Mothers
There are many obstacles to including pregnant women in research, and IRBs may understandably err on the side of caution when it comes to expectant mothers in clinical trials.