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Caring for Homeless Adults Through Case Management
As of 2020, more than half a million people were homeless in the United States. When a case manager cares for a patient who has no home or permanent place of residence, the plan can change quickly. While the general outline of the case management process might stay the same when serving a homeless individual, there are additional items to consider.
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Ethical Decision-Making for Case Managers
Every day, hospital case managers must make decisions — large and small — that affect the lives of their patients. Some of these are ethical decisions — what the case manager “ought” to do in a given situation. Since many decisions must be made quickly, hospital case managers should consider their ethics and plan ahead rather than reacting solely in the moment.
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Patient-Centered Care Can Improve Transitions
Patient-centered care is a simple, evidence-based way to improve care transitions and patient outcomes. Hospital case managers can benefit from learning more shared decision-making tactics.
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Target Low-Hanging Fruit in Preventing, Overturning Denials
The keys to preventing and overturning payer denials are to collect data to identify problem areas and to train staff in best practices. The case management team should understand the information each payer wants and how best to share those data.
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Understanding Medical Necessity Improves Utilization Review Process, Reduces Denials
The case management team should be trained thoroughly on utilization review and medical necessity to avoid payer denials. The goal is to ensure patients receive medically necessary, high-quality care. -
The Healing Process for Healthcare Workers Exposed to Workplace Violence
Research suggests peer support programs that may have been developed to support clinicians following an adverse event or medical error also be leveraged to help those suffering from stress, anxiety, or other emotional difficulties following incidents of workplace violence.
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Virtual Site Training Expands During the Pandemic
Virtual training for clinical trial teams may have existed for years, but it has gained significant attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. Experts expect the popularity of this kind of training to increase, even after COVID-19 restrictions are relaxed. -
Exploitation Issues Arise in Study of Human Subject Incentive Payments
As IRBs review participant incentives for studies, they assess whether the incentives are coercive or exploitive. New research provides a snapshot of the diversity of these incentive offerings, revealing monetary payments for biomedical studies tend to be 10 times higher than payments for sociobehavioral studies. -
Reliance Teams Strengthen Relationships with Central IRB
IRBs and research institutions continue to hammer out processes and best practices related to the revised Common Rule. As one IRB found, this process requires a team effort. When collaborative IRB requests began to increase, the Augusta (GA) University IRB office formed a reliance team. The IRB also designated one team member, a reliance coordinator, to handle issues related to reliance agreements. A recent study revealed the reliance team helps IRB offices with collaboration and reviewing reliance agreements to ensure the research is in accordance with local policies. The team also can help investigators navigate through reliance process. -
IRB Staff Training Program Improves Consistency and Work Group Efficiency
When an IRB office aimed to improve its staff training and work efficiency, the solution was to create a new program, called the IRB Staff Training and Onboarding Program. The process began with the IRB’s internal staff training and member work group and leaders identifying ways to improve training and onboarding of new IRB staff.