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Social Needs Data Are Useful, but Consistent Collection Needed
Case managers and researchers need data that can be used to improve care coordination and prevent hospitalizations and ED visits. But the challenge is deciding which patient data are useful and which are not.
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Novel Method Proposed to Optimize Care Coordination
Healthcare organizations need new methods to improve care coordination and patient-centered care. A co-author of a recent study proposes a method to determine whether a patient needs primary care or specialty care, naming the categories as “lifer” and “destination.”
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More Efficient Social Care Programs Could Improve Screening and Tailor Solutions
Researchers are finding that Accountable Health Communities need greater flexibility in activities geared toward improving patients’ health-related social risks. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services adopted quality metrics for health systems, requiring them to screen for health-related social risks. The authors of a new study found that the model does not allow for the flexibility needed to ensure hospitals sustain the adoption of AHC activities.
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‘Payvider’ Model Is a New Trend for Care Coordination and Addressing Social Needs
Case management and care coordination often are seen as ways to improve patient care outcomes, reduce readmissions, and make hospital-to-community care more efficient. However, resources remain limited in care coordination efforts because of the payment disincentive. A solution that is gaining steam is the “payvider” model.
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Care Management Aided by Solutions to Social Determinants of Health Needs
When a healthcare system asked clinical staff in all settings to screen patients for social determinants of health, patients’ personal struggles became apparent. The next step was more of a challenge — developing solutions.
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What Kind of Artifact?
To emphasize the importance of recognizing the clinical finding shown in the figure, no history is given. The two most helpful leads for interpretation of these unusual ECG findings are lead I and lead V3. How would you interpret this tracing?
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Exagamglogene Autotemcel Suspension (Casgevy)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first treatment for sickle cell disease using CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas9 (CRISPR associated protein 9) genome editing technology.
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Acute Vertigo Caused by Herpes Zoster Oticus
Herpes zoster oticus (HZO) and vestibular neuritis (VN) can be difficult to distinguish, but treatments may be different. Magnetic resonance imaging may help by showing inflammatory lesions in the vestibular nuclei or the proximal portions of the eighth nerves in HZO, but not VN.
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Studying Patients at High Risk for Death in the ICU Can Give Them a Voice and Help Clinicians Understand Their Concerns
Using a multiple-source approach, this study showed that when given a voice, patients at high risk of dying in the intensive care unit express variable logistical, spiritual, physical, psychological, and existential concerns that clinicians should consider and address.
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Coronary CT Angiography in Patients with Type 2 MI
In an observational, single-center study of patients with type 2 myocardial infarction who underwent coronary computed tomography (CT) angiography, researchers reported fewer than half had a significant anatomic stenosis (50% or greater), but only 26% had a hemodynamically significant lesion by CT fractional flow reserve.