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When Catherine M. Mullahy was a practicing case manager, she received a referral to manage the care of a patient who was recuperating at home on short-term disability, after being hospitalized with a severe case of cellulitis.
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Heart attacks in women go largely unrecognized 30 to 55% of the time, and those who miss the warning signs and fail or delay getting help, run the risk of death or grave disability.
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There's not a healthcare organization around that isn't focused on reducing unplanned readmission rates. They cost money and are the focus of a variety of regulatory and payer organizations that are either no longer paying for care related to such readmissions or will soon stop.
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Knowing how to develop an individualized teaching plan for patients is a skill each newly hired nurse must know at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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While a two-hour orientation on patient education provides a good introduction to resources and teaching methods at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, it is difficult to provide all the details in such a short time, says Brian M. French, RN, BC, manager of The Maxwell & Eleanor Blum Patient and Family Learning Center and The Knight Simulation Program at the hospital.
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A series of patient testimonies videoed for an initiative launched by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in Rockville, MD, shows the benefit of two-way communication between clinicians and patients.
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A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) says that patients with systolic hypertension who were treated with the diuretic chlorthalidone for 4.5 years as part of a clinical trial had a significantly lower rate of death and a gain in life expectancy free from cardiovascular death about 20 years later compared to patients who received placebo.
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A program initiated by Healthy York County Coalition in York, PA, trains any interested party to teach a program titled "It's Your Health, Take Charge."