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When it comes to improving quality, sometimes the simplest and least expensive measures work best, reports Earl Kurashige, RN, project manager for Qualis Health, a nonprofit health care quality improvement organization based in Seattle.
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Descriptions of the following positons: Payer specialists, Placement specialist, Denials management specialist, Staff assistants and Department secretary.
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In this first part of a two-part series on benchmarking, we tell about two hospitals that achieved dramatic reductions in length of stay (LOS). Next month, we discuss how to speed up admissions by addressing virtual capacity issues with the entire hospital.
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Are admitted patients being held for a long time in the emergency department while they wait for an inpatient bed to become available? Do patients in specialty care units stay longer than necessary because there is no general unit bed for them to be transferred to?
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Milan F. Feverfew for the prevention of migraine headache. Altern Ther Women's Health 2004;6(11):81-85.
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Drug-eluting stent (DES) technology may no longer be the new kid on the block, but there is still plenty of updated information as use of the devices expands into other indications and more data is gathered on niche populations. Some of those niches include the use of stents with small vessels and complicated lesions, and in diabetic populations.
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As attendees at the 16th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium here in late September examined trial results and the latest trends in medical device technology, there also was an eye on the big picture and how innovation affects healthcare as a whole.
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If one is to believe Jim Tobin, chairman and CEO of Boston Scientific (Natick, Massachusetts), his company lucked into becoming the second company in the U.S. to have a drug-eluting stent (DES) on the market, and by his account, king of [drug-eluting] stents, with more than 70% of the market share in the DES space.
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Performance improvement and staff education about PPS are as important in 2005 as they were five years ago when the rehab industry was anticipating the change, experts say.
