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Build Communication Skills with Patients and Families
Researchers asked parents of critically ill children what type of communication they appreciated and what types they found stressful. They learned how providers, case managers, and other healthcare professionals could improve their communication and patient/family education.
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Ways to Improve Communication Among Care Teams and Patients/Parents
Provider and patient or family conversations often take place in ICUs and other settings where patients and family members may experience high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression. Communication challenges can contribute to their stress, particularly when the patient is a child, research shows.
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Care Continuum Collaboration Improves Heart Failure Patient Care
A focus on multidisciplinary management of heart failure patients, along with transitional care interventions and integration with post-acute care facilities, can lower 30-day readmission rates for heart failure patients, new research shows.
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Nurse Care Coordinators Are Valuable in Federally Qualified Health Centers
A Federally Qualified Health Center that invested in a registered nurse care coordination program in a primary care setting found the position provided a valuable service and was cost-effective.
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Communication Challenges Affect Discharge Planning
Obstacles to effective care transitions include communication problems, both inside and outside the health system, according to researchers. When providers were asked about their communication concerns, they cited too many methods of communication, a high volume of communication, and challenges communicating with multiple providers and those outside their health system.
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Maternal Health Reaches a Crisis Point in the United States
The number of women dying from pregnancy-related causes in the United States has risen dramatically since 2018. Those numbers may continue to rise sharply as the nation creates more maternity deserts, obstetric staffing shortages, and obstacles to standard maternity care in states that enforce abortion bans and restrictions that affect women experiencing pregnancy crises.
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APIC 2023: No Hospital Is an Island
‘Isolated rural areas don’t have equal access to healthcare’
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Prescribing the Internet to Prevent Dementia
In an ongoing longitudinal survey of a nationally representative sample of dementia-free adults age 50 to 64.9 years, regular internet users experienced approximately half the risk of dementia compared with non-regular users.
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Does Running Prevent Coronary Artery Disease?
In this cross-sectional review of the Master Athlete Heart study, the authors found lifelong endurance sport participation was not associated with a more favorable coronary plaque composition vs. a healthy lifestyle. Lifelong endurance athletes exhibited more coronary plaques.
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A Primer on Excessive Daytime Sleepiness and Narcolepsy
Many new drugs are coming on the market to treat daytime sleepiness, as well as insomnia, as the prevalence of sleep disorders continues to grow in modern society. Clinicians should familiarize themselves with these disorders and the various ways to treat them safely.