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A combination of counseling and support services may reduce the risk of depression in people caring for a spouse with Alzheimers disease, a new study says.
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Providers increasingly are concerned that physicians may violate their patients right to freedom of choice of providers.
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Home care agencies providing care to pediatric patients must pay careful attention to the competency of the parent caregiver to make sure that he or she is ready for the challenge of caring for a child on a ventilator or a feeding tube.
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Changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act that passed in 2004 still may be under fire from opponents, but experts interviewed by Hospital Home Health say home health managers should not wait for any rollback of the rules.
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Many home health managers initially were apprehensive about periodic performance reviews (PPR), the self-evaluation required by the Joint Commission at the midpoint of an accreditation cycle. However, the response to the process following the implementation has been so positive that the Joint Commission will make the PPR an annual requirement beginning in 2006.
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The danger of the next influenza pandemic has become so crystal clear and ever present that the recently released federal pandemic influenza plan is considered something of a page turner among the normally dry reading requirements for health care providers.
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In response to concerns by health care attorneys and risk managers that information contained in a health care organizations periodic performance review (PPR) may be discoverable in a legal action, the Joint Commission developed these options to the PPR.
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Although the most common reasons for hospitalization among HIV patients in six hospitals nationwide are for comorbidities, there remains a significant rate of hospitalization for opportunistic infections (OIs), a new study says.
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As employers look at ways to deal with escalating health care costs, case managers likely will find themselves playing key roles. They will not, however, be the only ones in the game. Case managers complement disease managers as the two roles become integrated for more powerful care coordination.
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As part of its efforts to promote preventive care and appropriate management of chronic diseases, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida has begun the Recognizing Physician Excellence (RPE) program, which will reward physicians based on several criteria, including patient satisfaction, clinical quality and efficiency, and administrative efficiency.
