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A 61-year-old man presented to the emergency room with back pain of approximately one month duration. His medical history was significant for hypertension, for which he received diltiazem 180 mg daily. His weight had been stable at 175 lbs and, other than back pain, he suffered no constitutional symptoms. He has worked as an auto mechanic for 40 years. He smokes approximately 20 cigarettes a day and has done so for all of his adult years. He has no family history of cancer.
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Hospitals are beginning to see the trend of increasing use of electronic medical records (EMRs) as the national stimulus package funds and the health care reform act influence changes in health care practice.
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One path that leads to better care transitions and reductions in hospital readmissions is to break down the silos where care traditionally is delivered.
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Hospitals that have poor or no medication reconciliation processes have dismal medication safety statistics, one expert says.
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A new model for redesigning the health care transition process could result in improved care transition, reduced care fragmentation, and revitalization for the primary care model. Best of all, it's designed by a health plan payer, which might be the signal hospitals have been waiting for that payers will begin to fund discharge planning.
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When Winchester (VA) Medical Center worked on developing a best practice in medication reconciliation and patient discharge, the hospital focused on one point-of-care delivery: the medication list at intake.
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In this issue: Antiviral drugs and birth defects, bisphosphonates and esophageal cancer, naltrexone plus bupropion for weight loss, 2010-11 influenza vaccine, FDA Actions.
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As part of a longitudinal study of host/parasite relationships, which was initiated in two Senegalese villages in 1990 (and initially focused on malaria and tick-borne borreliosis), the potential of T. whipplei to cause infection in patients with fever of unknown etiology and negative test results for malaria was initiated in late 2008 and continued until the summer of 2009.
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Investigators in lausanne, switzerland cultured the noses of 405 new hospital workers for Staphylococcus aureus, then checked them again about nine months later.