Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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Vaccine Expert: SARS-CoV-2 Is Becoming Endemic
Make of it what you will in an unpredictable pandemic, but one of the nation’s leading vaccine and immunology experts sees COVID-19 fading to a somewhat undefined endemic level and then returning as a seasonal virus next winter. -
Violence Against HCWs Increased During Pandemic
In one of the few studies of its kind, researchers at the Mayo Clinic reported violent incidents against healthcare workers have more than doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
It Is Not the Canary — It Is the Coal Mine
Too often, healthcare workers facing a panoply of mental maladies — burnout, trauma, moral injury — are expected to muster up resilience enough to overcome what is essentially a systems problem. The answer is to fix the coal mine, not build stronger canaries, an expert says. -
Understanding Each COVID-19 Test’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Considering that testing over multiple days is not practical in the ED, clinicians with access to relatively rapid RT-PCR testing probably will opt for the more sensitive test. However, the antigen test offers a good option to urgent care centers or EDs that lack access to a sophisticated lab.
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Post-COVID-19 Behavioral Health for Patients and Providers
Questions about mental and behavioral health have been at the forefront of many minds, especially as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Of course, the problem did not start with COVID-19. -
Dementia Model Can Help Patients with Alzheimer’s
Patients with dementia face barriers to care, particularly for underserved communities. One possible solution is a community-based partnership approach and expansion of existing institutional and local resources. -
How a Transitional Care Leader’s Organization Survived the Pandemic Chaos
In this Q&A, Hospital Case Management asked Vera Usinowicz, APN-C, supervisor of The Center for Comprehensive Heart Failure Care at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, to discuss how her transitional care unit kept heart failure patients out of the emergency department and hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Updates to Hospital Value-Based Purchasing
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released updates and changes to its Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program. In response to the public health emergency, CMS is suppressing certain measures for 2022. -
Pharmacist-Led Transitions of Care Reduced Hospital Readmissions
An intervention that includes pharmacist-led transitions of care can significantly reduce readmissions, according to the results of recent research. Investigators found people enrolled in a pharmacist-led transitions of care clinic experienced significantly lower rates of 30-day and 90-day readmissions when compared to those without the intervention. -
Booster Doses Effective Against Omicron
While vaccination provides protection against infection with omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, high level protection from a need for hospitalization requires a booster dose.