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What Case Managers Can Do to Overcome Cultural Obstacles
One challenge that case managers sometimes encounter involves caring for patients from an unfamiliar culture. One case management organization developed tools to help with these circumstances.
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Perimenopausal Depression
OB/GYNs strive to screen women for perinatal depression both in pregnancy and postpartum. Although depression frequently affects reproductive-age women, it is common in women throughout the lifespan. This article discusses depression in perimenopausal women.
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Funding, Reimbursement Changes Coming to Care Delivery in 2019
Evolution in the healthcare industry brings greater need for case management services — but also results in more obstacles and challenges in how case managers accomplish their goals.
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Brexanolone for Postpartum Depression: Promising, but Will It Deliver?
In two double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, Phase III trials of brexanolone, a new medicine for postpartum depression, researchers found a significant reduction in symptoms at 60 hours of infusion compared to placebo.
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Was It a Missed STEMI or Just Too Early to Identify?
A STEMI pattern may develop minutes, hours, or days after a patient’s initial presentation. When this occurs, the case appears to be a “missed STEMI,” even though the STEMI pattern was not present on the initial ECG.
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STEMI May Be in ED Waiting Room: ‘Devastating’ Consequences
Was an MI patient sent to the waiting room? It is highly possible an ED nurse failed to convey important information, as multiple malpractice cases make clear.
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New Technology Aims to Identify Patients for Safe Discharge
A noninvasive diagnostic tool that measures the heart’s magnetic activity showed promise in a recent trial. However, researchers caution that more discovery is needed before the technology can be fully integrated into standard practice.
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Noncompliance With STEMI Guidelines Problematic in ED Claims
A recent investigation revealed that when it comes to obtaining an early ECG, there is a high degree of variability across EDs.
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Failure to Involve Cardiology Common Allegation in Missed STEMI
Involving cardiology in the STEMI decision-making process can be legally protective for EPs. But as one attorney warns: “What ED practitioners need to be wary of is doing it halfway."
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Atypical Symptoms, Atypical Patients: Both Increase the Odds of Missed STEMI
The “typical” heart attack patient presents with midline chest pain, sweating, and nausea. Certainly, this was not the case for one young man. A physician noted "the dissimilarity between his complaint and his pathology was striking."