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News: A nursing home resident with a history of difficulty in swallowing choked to death while eating a piece of brisket. Although staff attempted to perform the Heimlich maneuver and CPR on her, the woman died.
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Hospice managers have long suspected that their care both improves quality and saves payers money. Now there's a major research study of Medicare end-of-life patients that demonstrates that hospice care saves money for most end-of-life patients.
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Some hospices pay too little attention to how they complete Medicare cost reports. The result? Bad data at a time when good information is critically needed, as the industry undergoes regulatory scrutiny, one expert says.
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Antibiotic-resistant infections are not new to the hospice setting, but headlines throughout the country have increased public awareness of the potential risk of infection.
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It's an unpleasant reality that hospice professionals sometimes encounter a patient or family members who ask them to assist in hastening the patient's death.
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Although the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is not as high in hospice care as it is in hospitals, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention addresses the risk and identification of the infection ...
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A third-year medical student sits with an end-stage lung cancer patient who is in hospice. The patient wants to talk, but not about pain or death or advance directives; he wants to know the student's plans for the future.
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A study intended to determine how prescribing for comorbid illnesses and symptom control changes during the palliative phase of a terminal illness found older people take more medications ...
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In 2008 Patient Education Management will run more articles with suggestions for saving you time, which is a valuable resource. Time-savers will include references to educational materials, work tips such as juggling staff and patient education, or programs that can provide patterns for other institutions to follow.
With this issue we begin with a list of resources for patient education materials.
