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Pharmacists Can Help Improve Diabetes Outcomes in the Community
Some health systems are trying to integrate pharmacists in primary care units in hopes of improving outcomes for patients with chronic diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension. One model is to assign four or five primary care providers per pharmacist and create a co-visit model that integrates pharmacists in care involving medication management.
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Care Coordination Connects Students with Healthcare Providers
School mental health providers find care coordination to be important for students in public school districts. Care coordination refers to care activities for delivering services through communication to all involved, with the central goal of meeting the student’s needs and preferences and addressing gaps in care.
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Best Practices for Hospital Z Codes
Hospital Case Management asked Tammy Love, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, director of coding classification and policy at the American Hospital Association in Washington, DC, to answer a few questions via email about Z codes and what case managers need to know.
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Large Medicare Data Study Shows Big Benefits with Primary Care Follow-Up
New research shows Medicare patients who are hospitalized with a condition that could require emergency general surgery are far less likely to be readmitted if they receive follow-up care with a primary care provider within 30 days of discharge.
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Standardized Care Protocols at SNFs Improve Hospital Readmission Rates
New research shows how standardized care protocols can improve care and reduce readmission rates for patients with chronic conditions in skilled nursing facilities.
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How the PSA Handoff Form Works
The Patient Safety Attendant Handoff Form includes patient information and SBAR boxes for PSAs and nurses to communicate.
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Nurses Develop Successful Handoff Tool for Patient Safety Attendants
Nurse residents and co-investigators created and successfully tested a simple communication tool, called Patient Safety Attendant Handoff Form, that helps improve safety and care quality for patients with personal safety attendants.
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Turmeric (Curcumin) Helps Patients with Dyspepsia and Acid Reflux
In a randomized, controlled trial, curcumin demonstrated comparable efficacy to omeprazole in treating dyspepsia and acid reflux.
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Treating Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease
After studying an anti-amyloid antibody, solanezumab, researchers reported there was no benefit in reducing the likelihood of progression of cognitive impairment in patients with positive amyloid PET scans who started the trial cognitively unimpaired, compared to placebo.
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Is the Combination of a GLP-1 Agonist and a SGLT2 Inhibitor Safe?
An analysis of the Harmony Outcomes study and a meta-analysis combining it with the AMPLITUDE-O study of the addition of a glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) in a subgroup of type 2 diabetes patients on baseline sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor therapy has shown that major adverse cardiovascular events are reduced by GLP-1 RA, regardless of baseline SGLT2 use, and there was no difference in serious adverse events.