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Researchers Identify High Costs of Various Conditions
Researchers recently identified predictors of high-cost hospital stays related to ambulatory care-sensitive conditions. The highest median cost of care is related to heart failure, followed by diabetes and COPD. -
Project ECHO Reduces Readmissions, Shortens SNF Length of Stay
The Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes connects multidisciplinary skilled nursing facility teams with a multidisciplinary hospital team via videoconferencing. The program effectively reduces patient readmissions and skilled nursing facility length of stay. -
Case Study Shows Positive Results of Intensive Care Coordination
For one client, care coordination assistance through a Transition to Success framework helped her go from being homeless to housed within 86 days. -
From Homelessness to Self-Sufficiency, Case Management-Style Program Works
Case managers increasingly recognize the importance of addressing social determinants of health among patients across the care continuum, but evidence-based interventions are scarce. One new program seeks to change this with tactics to address one of the most prevalent social determinants of health: Poverty. A novel care transition and community case management program provides an evidence-based standard of care to treat poverty as an environmentally based and treatable condition.
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HHS Highlights No Surprises Act Benefits as Implementation Date Looms, Concerns Linger
Biden administration touts consumer protections, but lawmakers and advocacy groups remain concerned about interim final rule language.
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Is This Wellens’ Syndrome?
The ECG in the figure is from a young adult man known to have a bicuspid aortic valve. He presented to the ED following a presyncopal episode. The patient has not experienced chest pain recently. Does this patient have Wellens’ syndrome?
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Eculizumab for Refractory Myasthenia Gravis
Eculizumab, a monoclonal antibody that inhibits the C-5 complement terminal complex formation, is a safe and effective treatment for generalized myasthenia gravis with acetylcholine receptor auto-antibodies, even after failed treatment with other immunosuppressive regimens.
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Varenicline Nasal Spray (Tyrvaya)
Varenicline nasal spray is indicated to treat the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease.
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Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering Does Not Affect Small Vessel Disease Progression
Intensive blood pressure lowering was not associated with worsening but did not demonstrate any benefit in this population over standard blood pressure management.
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Infections Before Age 20 Years Increase the Risk of Multiple Sclerosis
The relationship between childhood infections and the risk of multiple sclerosis is supported by increasing evidence. Using the Swedish Total Population Register, researchers found that patients diagnosed with infection in adolescence showed an increased risk of multiple sclerosis, even after exclusion of infectious mononucleosis, pneumonia, and central nervous system infection.