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Help Patients Set Reasonable Expectations Regarding Pain
Surgeons might refer patients to pain management professionals and psychologists to help them cope with their anxiety and concern about pain. Discussions should center on the unpleasant side effects related to opioid use.
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Surgeons and Investigators Find Ways to Spare Opioids
Surgeons nationwide are developing opioid-sparing methods to help surgical patients avoid narcotic misuse and abuse. Several research presentations made during the recent American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons that could create paths for the future.
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Interdisciplinary Care Rounds: A Key Strategy for Improving Case Management Outcomes, Part Three
Case Management Insider continues discussion of scripting interdisciplinary rounds and reviews the roles each team member plays.
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Making Progress to Reduce Overtreatment
Excess screenings, scans, and treatments that offered little or no benefit were being prescribed at an estimated $210 billion a year, according to a 2013 report.
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First Steps to Help a Trafficking Victim
To ensure patient and staff safety, each organization should develop a protocol for human trafficking that includes staff training; multidisciplinary approach; screening and identification; mandatory reporting; follow-through procedures.
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Helping Human Trafficking Victims: Is Your Staff Prepared?
A forensic wants to help hospital staff recognize trafficking victims and establish hospital protocols that protect and aid a victim’s escape from the trafficking coercion.
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Study Targets Causes of 30-Day Rehospitalizations
A new study has identified some of the most common physiological reasons for 30-day unplanned rehospitalizations among heart failure patients — making it possible for case managers and others to develop interventions and strategies to address this problem.
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Case Managers Can Drive Success in Hospitals
Hospitals are moving from the traditionally reactive to newer proactive model of providing quality healthcare. This puts case managers in the driver’s seat when it comes to steering the organization to better outcomes.
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A Closer Look at Trinity Health’s Integrated Care Coordination System
Care coordinators can help hospitals better manage care through an integrated system that provides best practices in the handover process.
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Plan of Care Collaboration Can Reduce Readmissions
Hospital case managers are part of a care team collaboration that spans healthcare settings and disciplines, focusing on improving patient care and preventing high-risk patients from being readmitted to the hospital.