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Duke Raleigh Hospital's emergency department staff and the county's team of advanced practice paramedics work together to prevent readmissions among patients who are high utilizers of the healthcare system.
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Torrance (CA) Memorial Health System instituted Total Wellness Torrance, a multi-pronged approach to reducing preventable readmissions.
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Scottsdale (AZ) Health System and the City of Scottsdale Fire Department are teaming up to treat patients at the right level of care and avoid unnecessary trips to the emergency department and hospitalizations.
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Imagine health as a team activity. What matters most isn't whether one person achieves personal health goals, but how well everyone does as a group.
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The best thing you can do for patients may be to take care of your hardest working employees. Burnout not only affects the health and well being of health care workers, but it also leads to medical errors, higher infection rates, and injuries, says J. Bryan Sexton, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry at Duke University in Durham, NC, and director of the Patient Safety Center for the Duke University Health System.
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Next season's trivalent influenza vaccines will contain the same strains as this year's vaccine but it's still important to get the annual flu vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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A poster presentation at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine in March showed a correlation between patients who had high post-surgical pain and low patient satisfaction scores.
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If you had to guess what department Sara Bohling, MSN, RN, APRN-CCNS, Certified Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist, worked in at Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center in Lincoln, NE, it would probably be pretty easy. She has a soothing voice meant for calming infants, singing songs, and telling stories.
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It is not always easy to get people to change behaviors. Nathan Rozeboom, RN, MPH, CCRN, a nurse manager at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, experienced that when he tried to get nurses on a neuro intensive care unit to start giving report in the room with patients and their families. There was always a reason why some nurses just couldn't do it.
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Go to the hospital for an operation, and you're less likely to die, but your cost of care is, on average, two times as expensive as a non-surgical stay. The length of stay, though, wasn't much different: Five days for a surgical patient compared to 4.4 for a non-surgical patient.
