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Case Manager Offers Strategies to Improve Patient Communication
When working with elderly patients, it’s a good idea to initiate your visit or phone call with a conversation rather than direct health-related questions, suggests a case manager who has extensive geriatric experience and visits patients at their homes.
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Care Management Can Drive Capitated Care Success
Case managers’ roles are evolving through focus on capitated models that focus on keeping patients out of hospitals and emergency rooms.
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Case Managers Offer Advice on Handling Mass Shootings
Case managers can help their health systems prepare for the effects of mass shooting by taking several additional emergency preparedness steps.
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Case Manager Leadership Needed in Mass Shootings, Major Traumas
U.S. hospitals handle, on average, victims from a mass shooting every day. For most case managers, it’s not a matter of whether they and their colleagues will experience that traumatic event, but when.
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Take a Multidisciplinary, Team-based Approach on Elder Abuse
New research suggests there is ample room for improvement in the way elder abuse is identified and managed, particularly in the emergency setting.
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These Strategies Will Improve Care Transitions for Elderly Patients
Care transition for elderly patients is fraught with hidden obstacles and risks. Experienced case managers can identify and prevent problems.
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Avoid These Common Pitfalls in Care Transitions
Transitions of care can be difficult if case managers fail to prepare for some of the more common obstacles and problems.
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Tips for Handling Suspected Cases of Trafficking
Every healthcare system should have a protocol and system for handling suspected trafficking victims, according to a speaker and expert on the subject.
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Red Flags That a Patient is a Victim of Trafficking
Victims of trafficking potentially could meet any healthcare professional, including case managers.
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Human Trafficking is a Problem for Case Managers and All HCWs
Many U.S. healthcare professionals have met or treated a trafficking victim at some point in their careers, but they may not have recognized the signs.