Articles Tagged With: communication
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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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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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Ethics Consults Depend on Ability to Absorb Multiple Viewpoints
An important role for the ethicist is to clarify the values people hold that inform their decision-making. Thus, ethicists must develop skills that encourage patients, families, or surrogates to openly express these values. But these skills do not always come naturally.
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Patients with COVID-19 on ECMO Therapy Benefit from Early Guided Palliative Care Communication
Patients with severe COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome that require extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support can benefit from implementing palliative care communication early in their treatment course.
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Communication in Care Transition Process Needs Improvement
The care transition process is challenging, especially for patients with multiple complex conditions. To provide the best care to high-risk patients, case managers, community providers, and clinicians need to optimize communication. Case managers can improve the process through quality improvement efforts that focus on overcoming dialogue challenges and identifying providers’ communication preferences.
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Is Death Imminent? Conflicts Occur if Clinicians Do Not Make It Clear
Poor communication on prognosis prevents the family from making decisions based on the true situation. If surrogates do not realize death is imminent, they cannot plan for hospice care or contact family members to be there for the patient’s last moments.
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Researchers Offer Tips to Improve Shared Decision-Making in Pediatrics
Sometimes, all that is communicated to parents was the physician’s recommendation of what to do, not that there were several options to choose from and why one particular option is what the clinician preferred. This suggests physicians could benefit from additional guidance to promote the appropriate use of shared decision-making.
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Case Management for Patients Nearing the End of Life
As the median age of the U.S. population increases, conversations around end-of-life care will need to be more robust. Hospital case managers often are among the only providers who might broach this topic with their patients. They need to be equipped for those conversations, even when the patient does not know what to think. Sometimes, the patients have not put much thought into their own values or priorities, and need someone to serve as a guide.
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Even One Paid Malpractice Claim Predicts More in the Future
Physicians with even one single paid malpractice claim are much more likely than those with no paid claims to experience more paid claims later, according to a recent study. Researchers examined all paid malpractice claims against U.S. physicians between 2004 and 2018. They found paid claims are not the result of bad luck or an inevitable part of practicing medicine, as many physicians think.
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Care Transitions Through ACHIEVE Study Score Points with Patients
Care transitions across organizations and the community require better collaboration and communication among providers and social service organizations, according to recent research. Patients benefited from improved collaboration. They reported feeling better supported and cared for by providers involved in a care transition project.