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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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Policies Can Set Boundaries, Ensure Ethical Discharges
Often, clinicians perceive the discharge plan is focused on the question of “What are we obliged to do?” instead of “What should we do?”
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How Effective Is Ethics? Ask Clinicians, Examine Processes
Researchers found some unexpected variations between the requests for ethics consults and the retrospective reports from the clinicians who made the request.
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Much Common Ground Between Ethics and Hospital Leadership
Increasingly, hospital leaders are recognizing that ethics expertise “can help in the boardroom as well as at the bedside,” experts say.
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Patients With LVADs More Likely to Die in Hospitals
LVADs are becoming increasingly common, and researchers say they expect to see more patients with LVADs dying at home.
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Study: Many POLST Forms Completed by Surrogates
Surrogate preferences on Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment forms were 60% less likely to choose “all treatment” than patients who made their own decisions, found a new study.
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Clinicians Believe Chaplains Helpful — But Call on Them Infrequently
One study found that chaplain consults were rare, mainly reserved for dying patients, and usually occurred in the last 24 hours of life or even after death.
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Providers Experience Moral Distress in Pediatric Mental Healthcare
Limited community resources, such as lack of available inpatient beds, are among the issues facing clinicians.