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Care Coordination Program Fills Gaps in Social Determinants of Health
An interprofessional care coordination program helps train college students while helping vulnerable communities. The Richmond Health and Wellness Program began in 2012 with the three prongs of education, research, and service. The idea of the health and wellness program was to provide care to people to fill their gaps from social determinants of health.
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A Look at STRIDE Study Intervention
The Strategies to Reduce Injuries and Develop Confidence in Elders study produced breakthrough findings that suggest fall prevention among older adults is more challenging than the authors of previous research found.
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Falls Injure Millions of Americans, Cost $50 Billion Each Year
Recent studies challenge assumptions about how case managers and other healthcare professionals can reduce fall risk among older patients with comorbidities and recent hospital stays. The key is to focus on fall risk from just before a person is hospitalized to weeks after hospitalization.
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Jury Might Scrutinize Hospital Response to Safety Concerns
Most jurors believe employees are entitled to due process, whereby the appropriate parties address concerns and performance issues properly.
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Plaintiff Attorneys Hunting for Social Media Posts Made by ED Staff, Expert Witnesses
Laboratory turnaround times are too long, individual emergency physicians are incompetent, equipment is in bad shape. Lawyers are getting better at finding those kinds of social media posts made by anyone even tangentially involved in the case.
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Questions Raised Over Clinician Discipline in COVID-19 Era
With clinicians and hospital administrators strained by the COVID-19 pandemic, some are raising questions about whether oversight of clinician quality and performance is falling through the cracks.
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CMS Identifies Telemedicine Quality Tracking Measures
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is providing more detailed guidance for how healthcare providers should report electronic clinical quality measures for telehealth encounters. A total of 39 electronic clinical quality measures were recently published for the 2021 performance period.
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CDC Backtracks on Testing Controversy
After widespread criticism from the medical community, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dropped a controversial recommendation that de-emphasized the importance of testing asymptomatic contacts of COVID-19 cases.
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FDA: Barrier Enclosures for Aerosol-Generating Procedures May Increase Risk to HCPs
Citing increased risk to healthcare workers and patients, the Food and Drug Administration has revoked emergency use authorization for barrier enclosure devices that cover a COVID-19 patient’s head and upper body during aerosol‐generating procedures such as tracheal intubation.
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COVID-19 Precautions Reduce Flu Cases
There are encouraging signs that masking and other measures taken to prevent COVID-19 are diminishing seasonal influenza globally. Flu virus circulation declined when COVID-19 measures were taken in the Northern Hemisphere, with the same epidemiology observed as the flu season began later below the equator, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.