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Sofosbuvir, Velpatasvir, and Voxilaprevir Tablets (Vosevi)
Vosevi is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with chronic hepatitis C infection without cirrhosis or with compensated cirrhosis who are infected with genotype 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6, and have been treated previously with a hepatitis C regimen containing an NS5A inhibitor.
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Chondroitin Is as Effective as Celecoxib for Knee Arthritis
Six months of 800 mg of pharmaceutical-grade chondroitin sulfate daily relieved knee pain as much as 400 mg of celecoxib.
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Eat Right, and Live
An improvement in diet over 12 years in middle-aged nurses and other health professionals resulted in a decreased risk of death.
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Glucose Self-monitoring Not Helpful for Non-insulin-treated Type 2 Diabetes
In this pragmatic randomized trial, self-monitoring blood glucose did not lead to lower hemoglobin A1c levels or improvement in health-related quality-of-life measures.
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What’s Old Is New Again: The History of Case Management
This month, we will review case management’s long and rich history from a community-based model to an acute care model and beyond.
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High-needs Patients Require Focus to Avoid Readmissions
Hospitals can make significant headway in reducing readmissions by addressing high-needs patients, according to a new National Academy of Medicine special publication, which notes that nearly half of the nation’s spending on healthcare is driven by just 5% of patients.
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CMS Cuts Bundled Payment Program, Tweaks Quality Initiatives
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed sweeping changes in three bundled payment initiatives, and tweaked some of the pay-for-performance measures that affect hospital reimbursement.
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Collaboration Moves Long-stay Patients to Next Level of Care
When NYC Health+Hospitals’ acute care hospitals and post-acute facilities began collaborating in a pilot project, they were able to place challenging patients in the appropriate level of care — a program that is on track to save the public hospital system $3.5 million per year when it is rolled out systemwide.
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Got Challenging Patients? Try These Discharge Tips
Every case management leader should be educating their teams on how to deal with complex and difficult-to-discharge patients so the case managers will know what to do when they face a specific issue.
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Refer Difficult-to-place Patients to a Discharge Planning Specialist
The changes in healthcare reimbursement and the increase in patients with complex needs and inadequate or no funding have created a huge workload for case managers and social workers.