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If anyone questions whether your company's workplace weight loss programs are really getting workers to lose pounds, you have a ready answer in light of a new review of studies.
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More than half of states have laws requiring 100% smoke-free workplaces, but hardly any workplaces are fragrance free. This is getting increasing attention, however, with growing evidence of the serious health risks posed by synthetic fragrances to workers.
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Demonstrating a program's return on investment (ROI) is more important than ever.
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With the number of uninsured patients increasing rapidly, the case management and social work staff at North Broward Medical Center are faced with the challenge of making sure patients receive the follow up they need to stay healthy and out of the hospital.
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At a health insurer in the northwest mountain state region, case managers and disease managers work hand in hand and share an electronic care management software system that allows them to seamlessly manage the care of their Medicare Advantage members.
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IRBs have an important role to play in improving community involvement in cancer clinical trials everything from increasing their own community membership to working with community advisory boards and pushing for more community-friendly informed consent.
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More meaningfully involving communities especially minorities and other ethnic groups in clinical research isn't just good ethics it could help address under-recruitment and failure of cancer clinical trials, says one of the authors of a new report on the subject.
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Payer denials for inappropriate observation patient status dropped by 50% the first year after Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton, OH, instituted a case management protocol that delegates responsibility for determining patient status to case managers.
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When patients are admitted to Alamance Regional Medical Center in Burlington, NC, care managers are responsible for assigning the DRG and length of stay and establishing medical necessity and the correct patient status.