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Communication is the Key to Ensuring a Successful Transition
In the hospital setting, the inpatient case managers should communicate amongst themselves, with the patient and family, and the nurse navigator, who, in turn, communicates with patients and everybody involved with them after discharge.
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Develop Criteria for Patients Referred to Complex Case Manager
Don’t base referrals to the complex case manager strictly on the age of the patient or the diagnosis.
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Coordinating Transitions Requires Experience, Knowledge of Resources
The role of transition coordinator may be a new one, but it will take an experienced case manager or social worker to handle it successfully.
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New Role for Case Managers Opens Up with Payment Reform
Somebody has to coordinate the post-discharge care now that hospitals are beginning to bear risk for what happens to patients after discharge, but inpatient case managers are already swamped and don’t have the time to do the job well, experts say.
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Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't
Research produces curious results about the relationship between stress and healthy eating habits.
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What Really Causes PTSD in Veterans?
Researchers want to know if it's not just the emotional toll of combat but an actual physical trauma sustained in battle that causes this neurological disorder.
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Wrong-patient Errors Can Lead to Death, But They Can Be Prevented
About 9% of the wrong-patient events studied for a just-released report led to temporary or permanent harm or, in some cases, death.
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Hospital Consult - October 2016
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Managing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Part 1
MONOGRAPH: Covering sodium glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors, incretin-based therapies, amylin analog, and dopamine receptor agonists.
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Hospital CMS CoPs Made Easy
Part 2Does your hospital have what it takes to comply with CMS Hospital CoPs?