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Pediatric Hospitals Develop Best Practices to Avoid Readmissions
A group of children’s hospitals has taken the bundles of care approach, applying a bundle of their best practices to see how these impact outcomes.
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Well-Regarded Business Strategies Can Be Used in Case Management
Payers, including the federal government, are beginning to recognize that healthcare providers can succeed with keeping patients healthy only to the extent that patients are willing collaborators in their own care.
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Value-Based Care Requires Support for At-Risk Populations
Case managers should learn how to better work with patients most vulnerable to hospitalization and build relationships with them, experts say.
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Care Transition Bundle Outlines Seven Strategies
The National Transitions of Care Coalition uses seven key elements that help health systems adopt value-based care.
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Case Management Trends in 2019 Include Focus on Value and Pathways to Success
Change is in the air this year, and it is moving the focus more toward case management work in care coordination and value-based care.
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Interdisciplinary Care Rounds: A Key Strategy for Improving Case Management Outcomes, Part 1
In recent years, emerging best practice care rounding models have changed the face of how healthcare professionals perform rounds. Although these models result in better outcomes for patients, they remain an elusive, often misunderstood tool.
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Physical Therapy Can Be Alternative to Opioids
Brief treatment with opioids post-surgery and opioid treatment for cancer pain still work well, but clinicians increasingly are looking for alternatives for chronic pain.
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Case Managers Can Help Patients, Physicians Understand Two-Midnight Rule
The Two-Midnight Rule has benefited hospitals in the past few years, but some facilities continue to have problems with implementing the rule.
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Dedicated Case Managers Can Improve ED Efficiency
Hospitals can help eliminate ED inefficiency with targeted case management programs that have the goal of getting people into the right level of care at the right location.
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Separating Utilization Review, Case Management Creates Transitional Care Coordinator Role
Hospitals that still assign case managers to utilization review and care coordination at discharge might consider separating the duties to improve care quality.