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Programs designed to help transition care for hospitalized older patients to outside healthcare clinicians and settings are associated with reduced rates of hospital readmissions, according to two reports in the July 25 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
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How do you get patients to put into practice the steps for better disease management, prevention techniques, or adherence to a medication regimen?
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As our society becomes increasingly diverse, case managers need to be aware of the cultural beliefs and practices of the people they serve to effectively coordinate their care and help them adhere to their treatment plan.
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To address the issues of health literacy, St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in Cleveland, OH, made a radical move. It abolished its patient education committee and formed the Health Literacy Institute that consists of an interdisciplinary team of caregivers who are dedicated to improving health literacy through better communication.
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Whether chemotherapy is given before or after breast-conserving therapy (BCT) does not have an impact on long-term local-regional outcomes, suggesting treatment success is due more to biologic factors than chemotherapy timing, according to a study1 by researchers at The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.
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Making written handouts readily available to clinicians interacting with patients is an important element of patient education.
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Women with a deleterious gene mutation are diagnosed with breast cancer almost eight years earlier than relatives of the previous generation who also had the disease and/or ovarian cancer, according to new research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.
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Patients at high risk for a second stroke had a lower risk of stroke and death when treated with aggressive medical therapy than patients who received a brain stent in addition to aggressive medical therapy, according to a nationwide clinical trial that included specialists in Stony Brook University School of Medicine's Departments of Neurology and Neurological Surgery, Stony Brook, NY.
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In the first 10 months of the Heart Failure Transition Care Program at Tucson, AZ-based Carondelet Health Network, case managers, called nurse partners, prevented hospital readmissions 14 times while managing the care of 62 high-risk patients.
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An initiative to cut down on the use of the emergency department (ED) for non-emergent care by educating patients on more appropriate levels of care resulted in an 11.5% decline in ED use in three years by members covered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, with headquarters in Jacksonville.
