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Under-triage, or assessing patients as being less ill than they actually are, can lead to treatment delays and adverse outcomes, including serious injury and even death. Despite such dire consequences, however, Lisa Wolf, PhD, RN, CEN, FAEN, a clinical assistant professor nursing at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA, believes that under-triage is occurring in ED environments across the country.
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An integrated approach to managing the care of Medicare Advantage members with special needs has paid off for Baltimore-based XLHealth, resulting in increased primary care interventions and reduced rates of hospitalization and emergency department visits.
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For some patients, particularly senior citizens, the hospital can be like a revolving door. They're in and out of the hospital frequently, despite the best efforts of clinicians to keep them healthy in the community.
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The use of evidence-based quality indicators to ensure consistent treatment is a great idea because it improves patient care and outcomes, right?
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The first part of new federal rules related to quality and outcomes for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) went live in January, with a requirement to implement a surgical safety checklist.
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One of the most common mistakes found in Joint Commission surveys is expired medications, says Yosef D. Dlugacz, PhD, of the Krasnoff Quality Management Institute at the Long Island Jewish Health System in New Hyde Park, NY.
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A prenatal care quality initiative at the North Shore-LIJ Health System in Great Neck, NY, has achieved significant improvement in the 11 adverse outcome measures followed via modification of the Adverse Outcome Index (MAOI), according to a study published in the Journal for Healthcare Quality.
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It's 44 pages of questions about infection control procedures from injections and hand hygiene to sharps safety and personal protective equipment and it's coming to your hospital soon.
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Academic detailing a way of teaching novel concepts one on one started as a way for pharmaceutical and medical device companies to quickly disseminate information about new drugs and devices by having individual physicians spread the word among their peers.