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In response to concerns by health care attorneys and risk managers that information contained in a health care organizations periodic performance review (PPR) may be discoverable in a legal action, the Joint Commission developed these options to the PPR.
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The danger of the next influenza pandemic has become so crystal clear and ever present that the recently released federal pandemic influenza plan is considered something of a page turner among the normally dry reading requirements for health care providers.
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Many home health managers initially were apprehensive about periodic performance reviews (PPR), the self-evaluation required by the Joint Commission at the midpoint of an accreditation cycle. However, the response to the process following the implementation has been so positive that the Joint Commission will make the PPR an annual requirement beginning in 2006.
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Changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act that passed in 2004 still may be under fire from opponents, but experts interviewed by Hospital Home Health say home health managers should not wait for any rollback of the rules.
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Home care agencies providing care to pediatric patients must pay careful attention to the competency of the parent caregiver to make sure that he or she is ready for the challenge of caring for a child on a ventilator or a feeding tube.
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Providers increasingly are concerned that physicians may violate their patients right to freedom of choice of providers.
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A combination of counseling and support services may reduce the risk of depression in people caring for a spouse with Alzheimers disease, a new study says.
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The American Association for Homecare in Alexandria, VA, has identified eight of the key health care policy trends that will affect home health agencies and home health consumers.
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Although painless acute aortic dissection has been described, there has been no systematic study of this condition. Park and colleagues from the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection assessed the clinical characteristics and outcomes of this condition to see if clinical recognition could be improved.
