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Transitional care pilot program shows promise
A nurse practitioner-led transitional care program has helped improve communication between hospital and community care providers and facilitated a timely transfer of patient information, according to a study of a two-year pilot project. -
Hospitals can add a CPR self-taught course to DP
The hospital discharge process for cardiopulmonary patients could offer patients' families and friends a video self-instruction course on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) that improves discharge education and has the potential to save lives. -
Leaders describe guideline creation
Case managers at Children's Hospital Boston wrote a successful set of guidelines describing roles and responsibilities in the hospital's collaboration with home care liaisons during the discharge process. -
Care transition intervention lowers health system's hospital readmissions
Medicare spends about $17 billion a year on hospital readmissions that could have been prevented, experts say. -
Emergency Medicine Reports - Full August 15, 2011 Issue in Streaming Audio/Downloadable MP3 Format
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Emergency Medicine Reports - Full August 15, 2011 Issue in PDF
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Complications of Tubes and Lines: Part II
This is the second part of our two-part series on complications of tubes and lines. This issue deals with nephrostomy and enterostomy tubes and urinary catheters. It offers straightforward advice about these frequent problems. -
Emergency Medicine Reports - Full September 26, 2011 Issue in Streaming Audio/Downloadable MP3 Format
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Special Report: Improving care transition communication: Communication during care transitions should be training priority in hospitals
Health care systems have a few years to improve care transition communication and processes before health care reform changes make concise and clear communication essential, experts say. -
Sleep Apnea and Perioperative Complications After Noncardiac Surgery
In a population-based study using hospital discharge diagnosis codes, patients with sleep apnea who underwent knee arthroplasty or open abdominal procedures were more likely to require invasive mechanical ventilation and to be diagnosed with aspiration pneumonia or ARDS than were matched patients without sleep apnea. Knee-replacement patients, but not those undergoing laparotomy, also were more likely to be diagnosed with pulmonary embolism.