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Childhood Trauma Is an Overlooked Social Determinants of Health Factor
Research demonstrates strong connections between exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), chronic stress, and poor health, including frailty in older adults. Health systems could make it a priority for providers and case managers to identify ACEs among adult populations and ask for better integrated services and models of care to serve this group. -
Study Author Explains How Care Coordination Failures Create Healthcare Waste
Hospital Case Management asked Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA, president and chief executive officer of Healthcare Financial Management Association, about his findings that failures in care coordination lead to costly waste in the healthcare industry. -
Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy Among Staff and Patients
In other national crises when lives were at stake, including the 9/11 terrorist attacks and World War II, the nation pulled together and largely embraced restrictions and calls to action. In the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the death toll heading toward 1 million Americans, many are placing their individual beliefs or desires ahead of public health and the national welfare. Healthcare professionals are caught in the middle of the fight over vaccines and masking mandates. -
Chatbots and Technology Make Case Management Affordable, Efficient
Technology can help extend case management, improving efficiency and costs when managing large populations of at-risk patients. A chatbot tool can send patients daily text messages that provide information on self-care behaviors and ask them about their current health status. -
List of Possible Cancer-Causing Agents Grows Longer
Six water disinfection byproducts, plus a flame retardant and a bacterial infection, now considered potential human carcinogens.
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National Alzheimer’s Plan Updated with New Focus on Healthy Aging
Feds add sixth goal in the ninth version of this annually released report.
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ED Is Focus of Reduction in Sepsis-Related Mortality
Using a sepsis alert, combined with nursing protocols and physician order set usage, can improve core measure compliance and related mortality rates.
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Rapid-Access Psychiatry Encounter Might Reduce ED Use Rate
The lack of access to outpatient psychiatric care could contribute to the medical emergencies seen in EDs. Most emergency providers are well aware of the shortage of available mental healthcare providers in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
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Damages, Causation Are Obstacles in Abdominal Pain Med/Mal Cases
Many older ED patients are living with a host of preexisting conditions, which, coupled with the patient’s age, argue against investing the needed time and money to pursue a malpractice claim. Even if there is clear liability and causation, the case of misdiagnosed abdominal pain still might not be worth pursuing from a financial standpoint.
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Older Adults with Abdominal Pain Risk Mistriage, Inadequate Diagnostic Tests
ED providers should not think of abdominal pain in older adults as the same as abdominal pain in younger patients. At the department level, consider adding abdominal pain in older patients to the list of automatic ECG criteria.