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Care Coordination Connects Students with Healthcare Providers
School mental health providers find care coordination to be important for students in public school districts. Care coordination refers to care activities for delivering services through communication to all involved, with the central goal of meeting the student’s needs and preferences and addressing gaps in care.
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Best Practices for Hospital Z Codes
Hospital Case Management asked Tammy Love, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, director of coding classification and policy at the American Hospital Association in Washington, DC, to answer a few questions via email about Z codes and what case managers need to know.
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Large Medicare Data Study Shows Big Benefits with Primary Care Follow-Up
New research shows Medicare patients who are hospitalized with a condition that could require emergency general surgery are far less likely to be readmitted if they receive follow-up care with a primary care provider within 30 days of discharge.
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Standardized Care Protocols at SNFs Improve Hospital Readmission Rates
New research shows how standardized care protocols can improve care and reduce readmission rates for patients with chronic conditions in skilled nursing facilities.
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Nurses Develop Successful Handoff Tool for Patient Safety Attendants
Nurse residents and co-investigators created and successfully tested a simple communication tool, called Patient Safety Attendant Handoff Form, that helps improve safety and care quality for patients with personal safety attendants.
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Early, Integrated Education May Prevent ‘Ethical Erosion’
Modalities such as ethics rounds or shadowing could help make these considerations a part of everyday practice.
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Many Ethics Committees Are Not Following AAP Guidance
In a survey of ethics consultant leaders at children’s hospitals, researchers found multiple practice gaps, including training needs; informing staff, patients, and family about ethics services; and scope of ethics service. These practice gaps could erode ethics quality and narrow ethics reach.
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Appellate Court Affirms Jury’s Verdict in Favor of Hospital and Physician
Medical negligence claims hinge on three primary components: defining the standard of care, the failure to meet this standard, and directly linking any negligence to the sustained injury. In this case, the chief point of contention was whether the physician breached the standard of care when he removed a limited amount of prostatic tissue.
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Appellate Court Affirms $42 Million Award for Medical Negligence Despite Evidentiary Errors
For medical professionals and the broader healthcare community, this case highlights several interesting issues.
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President’s Group on Patient Safety Publishes Recommendations
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology recently released its findings and recommendations on patient safety in a report that outlines how “patient safety is an urgent national public health issue.”