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Pediatric Hospitals Develop Best Practices to Avoid Readmissions
A group of children’s hospitals has taken the bundles of care approach, applying a bundle of their best practices to see how these impact outcomes.
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Well-Regarded Business Strategies Can Be Used in Case Management
Payers, including the federal government, are beginning to recognize that healthcare providers can succeed with keeping patients healthy only to the extent that patients are willing collaborators in their own care.
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Value-Based Care Requires Support for At-Risk Populations
Case managers should learn how to better work with patients most vulnerable to hospitalization and build relationships with them, experts say.
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Care Transition Bundle Outlines Seven Strategies
The National Transitions of Care Coalition uses seven key elements that help health systems adopt value-based care.
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Case Management Trends in 2019 Include Focus on Value and Pathways to Success
Change is in the air this year, and it is moving the focus more toward case management work in care coordination and value-based care.
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State Policymakers Work Toward and Against a Post-Roe Country
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Trial Underway for Vaginal Ring Device Designed for HIV Prevention
Researchers are evaluating a vaginal ring designed to protect women against both HIV and herpes simplex virus type 2 in a Phase I study. The trial is being conducted by researchers from the National Institutes of Health-funded Microbicide Trials Network at three U.S. sites in Alabama, California, and Pennsylvania.
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FDA Approves New Test for Mycoplasma genitalium
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first test to help with the diagnosis of Mycoplasma genitalium, a sexually transmitted infection.
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Researchers Investigate Microneedle Skin Patch Technology for Contraception Delivery
Researchers are studying microneedle skin patch technology for providing a long-acting contraceptive method that can be self-administered.
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Providers Can Improve Teen HPV Vaccination Rates
According to a new study, only about 16% of U.S. adolescents have received the complete vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) by the time they turn 13 years of age, despite national recommendations for vaccination at ages 11-12.