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An asthma management program that includes telephonic case management, home visits, and physician incentives has saved money and earned accolades for Priority Health, a health plan company based in Grand Rapids, MI.
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There are many resources that help health care institutions develop strategies for teaching people how to appropriately access health care and use it to their best interest. Following is a description of two sites:
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Health literacy, according to the Institute of Medicine, is "the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions" and research has shown that patients are not all created equal.
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A community-based program that provides face-to-face care management for people with chronic disease has resulted in decreased health care costs, fewer missed days at work, and improved quality of life for program participants.
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Face-to-face case management for members at high risk for health care exacerbations has paid off for Great-West Healthcare, a Greenwood Village, CO, health plan that serves as a third-party administrator for about 6,000 self-insured employer groups.
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In this issue: Does erythropoietin worsen cancer death rates? Most hypothyroid patients can be replaced with levothyroxine alone without additional T3. Does aggressive control in type 2 diabetes save lives?
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This multicenter randomized trialnicknamed the VISEP studyused a two-by-two factorial design to test two independent treatments in severe sepsis patients.
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Improper infection control practices at a surgery center in Las Vegas that led to a hepatitis C outbreak, plus the nation's largest number of patient contacts 40,000 for blood exposure, may be replicated at other health care facilities across the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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It wasn't a surgical procedure that almost tripped up the staff at Blue Ridge Surgery Center. It was a pain procedure, says Suzanne L. Broome, RN, director of the Seneca, SC, facility.
