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Pharmacists Can Improve Care Transitions, Researchers Suggest
The results of recent research suggest case management and transitions of care teams that include pharmacists see greater success keeping patients healthier and out of the hospital. One study revealed a barrier to pharmacy involvement in care transitions is incomplete communication between pharmacists and providers. -
Patients’ Goals During Long-Term Acute Care Hospital Stays
After a long-term acute care hospital stay, most patients will achieve goals of ventilator liberation, eating, drinking, and speaking, but many will not achieve independence in walking, grooming, toileting, or returning home.
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Chatbots Can Help Care Managers Provide Ethical Treatment
There is no way around it — health systems are facing an ongoing shortage of clinicians to meet the needs of patients who need longitudinal care management. For one system, chatbot technology turned out to be at least a partial solution.
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Social Isolation, Older Adults, and Mortality Post-ICU
Social isolation among older adults admitted to the ICU was associated with worse disability burden and higher one-year mortality rates after critical illness.
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Best Practices in Utilization Management
The increasing complexity of healthcare has taken the field of case management along for the ride, and with it the practice of utilization management. -
Effect of COVID-19 on Patient Severity of Illness, Evaluating Hospital Performance
Patients with COVID-19 not only experience a higher mortality rate, but also a longer length of stay than other viral illness patients, even when adjusted for other patient factors such as age and comorbidities. Because of this, it is a challenge to evaluate hospital performance during the pandemic. -
Loneliness and Social Disconnection Common During COVID-19 Pandemic
More than one-third of Medicare beneficiaries said they were more socially disconnected, and nearly one in four reported they were lonelier during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results of a recent survey. -
Undiagnosed Dementia a Risk for Older Patients
Patients with dementia may be at greater risk of hospitalization and ED visits, yet many are undiagnosed or unaware of their dementia diagnosis. When patients are undiagnosed, or are unaware of a dementia diagnosis, they might lack needed caregiver support or struggle to manage their diseases because no one recognizes their cognitive impairment. -
Want to Retain and Support Staff? Better Communication from Leadership Helps
Hospital nurses need effective communication from leadership to help them cope with the long COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results of a recent study. Nurses also need to be part of leadership gatherings, local meetings, and decision-making to share their daily experiences and help find solutions to the unprecedented emergencies created during the past two years. -
Care Transitions Are Trickier Than Ever as Pandemic Wreaks Havoc
The bottleneck of patients many health systems experienced in early winter was created by a perfect storm of these problems: too few employees, too many patients sick with the omicron variant, and too many ambulatory settings also experiencing staffing problems.