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Numerous published studies have strongly suggested that negative emotions such as depression and anxiety contribute to the development of symptomatic coronary artery heart disease.
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The FDA has approved the first combination NSAID and proton pump inhibitor.
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Its no secret that compliance with hand hygiene is a key element in reducing the rate of hospital-acquired infections. Yet changing physician behavior often is easier said than done.
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Does your organization provide consumers and the community with opportunities to be involved in shaping your services and performance improvement initiatives? If the answer is no or not very often, senior leaders and staff are missing out on valuable information.
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With a care coordination program in place that has dramatically reduced acute care and emergency department utilization by the chronic frail elderly while enhancing patients quality of life, Sutter Health Sacramento (CA) Sierra Region was looking for a way to take the program to yet a higher level, says Jan Van der Mei, RN, care management director.
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The Disease-Specific Care certification offered by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is designed to evaluate disease management and chronic care services provided by hospitals, health plans, disease management service companies, and other care delivery settings.
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After a group of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) patients in Toronto in 2003 was tracked to a surgical patient, health care providers there realized no guidelines from international or U.S. groups addressed how to handle SARS patients or avoid SARS transmission in the OR.
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Recently at a conference, I was asked about what frustrates me the most out of all the work we do. It took me less than a second to reply: expense adjustment.
