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Hospitals that serve populations that traditionally have difficulty affording primary care now are seeing their indigent populations swell as the recession has hit those with hard luck even harder.
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A new study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine highlights the problem of hospital patients being unaware of their own medications.
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When the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Charleston, SC, prepared to switch to computerized provider order entry (CPOE), one of the first steps for the staff focused on discharge planning was to revise the discharge order set.
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As hospitals nationwide seek ways to reduce their readmission rates and improve quality, they are having to make improvements with fewer resources.
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A regional hospital in a Southern rural state found that its hospital discharge process improved when the institution focused on refining its goals and improving collaboration between disciplines.
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When research suggests changes in standard medical practice, the public health community expects physicians and hospitals to adopt the new way and help improve patient outcomes.
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Several new studies highlight the need for more thorough discharge planning in the care of coronary and congestive heart failure patients. Such patients often are elderly and susceptible to adverse events and drug-drug interactions from standard medication treatment.
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The National Institutes of Health and the city of Washington, D.C. recently announced the new D.C. Partnership for HIV/AIDS Progress, a collaborative research initiative between NIH and the D.C. Department of Health designed to decrease the rate of new HIV infections in the city, improve the health of district residents living with HIV infection, and strengthen the city's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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As HIV clinicians in Cleveland, OH, were testing a symptom management intervention, they found there weren't any good scales available.