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Many factors keep people from putting into practice what they have learned about diabetes. One frequent factor is that people do not make diabetes management a priority, says Teresa Benge, RN, CDE, CPT, a diabetes educator at Fairview Diabetes Care in Wyoming, MN.
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"We don't say it is always easy to manage diabetes, but we do say that diabetes is a manageable disease," says Janis McWilliams, RN, MSN, CDE, BC-ADM, an advance practice diabetes specialist at the University of Pittsburgh (PA) Diabetes Institute.
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A comprehensive case management program at Desert Oasis Healthcare that provides care coordination for patients throughout the continuum keeps patients healthier and out of the hospital. And it's cost effective.
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If you had to name something that costs American businesses an estimated $4.1 billion a year in direct medical and mental health care services, would you think of intimate partner violence?
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National Case Management Week, Oct. 11-17, is the perfect opportunity for case managers in all settings to educate their co-workers, the public, and politicians about the value of case management. But don't stop there.
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A unique partnership between a health plan and a physician practice is helping patients with diabetes get the care and resources they need to manage their disease.
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New research suggests that universal intimate partner violence (IPV) screening in health care settings does not result in significant changes in subsequent reports of IPV or quality of life, according to a study in the Aug. 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Depression is not as visible as a back injury but it is without question a significant drain on workforce productivity both absenteeism and presenteeism.
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Eldery Mexican-Americans have higher rates of chronic illness than their non-Latino counterparts, but many don't receive the care they need because they and their caregivers resist home care services, says Janice Crist, RN, PhD, associate professor at the University of Arizona College of Nursing.
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A worker is wearing a full body harness, but with the lanyard attached to a handrail instead of to an anchor point that was engineered for fall protection. No one is injured at least not this time.