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Suggested Questions Case Managers Can Ask Older, Very Ill Patients
Healthcare providers, including case managers, can bring up end-of-life issues with their most frail and ill patients by approaching it in a Q&A format.
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How SPIKES Method Works, in a Nutshell
The SPIKES method can work for approaching end-of-life discussions with patients whose frailty and multiple chronic illnesses suggest it’s time to discuss palliative care or even referral to hospice care.
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Approaching End of Life Holistically and Peacefully
Patients with multiple chronic illnesses often are frail and could benefit from case management that includes addressing end-of-life care.
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Know Older, Medically Complex Patients’ Wishes
Healthcare for the older, chronically ill population poses numerous challenges, but it also suggests an opportunity for case managers to address advance directive and end-of-life questions and needs.
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Copy-and-Paste Should Be Used Carefully
Anyone who uses a computer or other device routinely takes advantage of the copy-and-paste feature to save time and effort, but how appropriate is that when you’re working in an electronic medical record?
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Step Toward Bundled Payments
The final bundled payments rule is similar to the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, but with a great deal more complexity.
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Has the Needlestick Problem Been Solved? AOHP Study Answers a Resounding ‘No’
Bloodborne pathogen exposures to healthcare workers were higher than expected and not declining in incidence rates, according to the latest results from the Exposure Study of Occupational Practice.
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NY Case Management Programs Encounter Enrollment Obstacles
One of the major challenges of a sweeping care coordination management program that targets people with the trio of medical, behavioral, and social problems is that this very population is among the most difficult to enroll in any kind of sustained healthcare effort.
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Health Home Model has Flexibility for ‘Social Determinants of Health’
'Social determinants of health' greatly affect some patients’ health, leading to worse outcomes unless those issues are resolved.
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As Demand for Case Managers Rises, Educators Meet the Need
Case management positions and hiring are on the rise as healthcare organizations respond to changes brought by the Affordable Care Act.