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Consult Service Created for Moral Distress
When ICU nurses at the University of Virginia Health System were experiencing a serious issue with moral distress, they asked Ann B. Hamric, PhD, RN, for help.
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Study: Pathologists Want More Active Role in Error Disclosure
Pathologists want to play a more active role in conversations about errors with patients, instead of turning to the treating physician to handle it, according to a recent study.1
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Do Concierge Practices Indicate Medicine ‘Needs to Be Fixed?’
The continued growth of concierge medicine is spurred, in part, by a strong desire for longer, more meaningful visits. This is true for both patients and physicians.
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Case of Terminally Ill Infant Sparks Ethical Debate Over Autonomy
The highly-publicized case of Charlie Gard, a terminally ill British infant, ignited a recent global ethical controversy. The case involved a court battle between the hospital, who wanted to remove the infant from life support, and the child’s parents, who wanted their son transferred to the U.S. for an experimental treatment.
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Changes to Readmissions Rule Will Help, But No Panacea
A significant number of hospitals are set to benefit from changes in how CMS calculates penalties under the value-based Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), but the proposed rule won’t solve all their problems related to readmissions, says Bill Bithoney, MD, formerly CEO, CCO, and CMO at Sisters of Providence Health System in Springfield, MA, and now a managing director at BDO International consulting in New York City.
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Initiating Medication-assisted Treatment for Patients Presenting With Opioid Withdrawal
With a new report showing dramatic surges in both ED visits and hospital admissions because of problems related to opioid misuse, it’s clear that current approaches to the problem are not sufficient.
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Look to Social Determinants of Health When Building Post-acute Ties in ACOs
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) that involve case management in the entire care continuum often build post-acute care relationships to help their teams find solutions to patients’ social determinants of health issues.
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Opioid Overutilization Management Program Paves Way for Success
Healthcare organizations could learn a great deal about developing an opioid management program by following some of the best practices created as a result of the federal Medicare mandate for health plan sponsors.
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Pain Management in Workers’ Comp Has Evolved to a Holistic Approach
Psychosocial aspects of chronic pain are much better understood today than a generation ago. What healthcare organizations now know is that each person’s pain after an injury or surgery is different.
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Case Management’s Role in Curbing Opioid Epidemic Increases
Opioid addiction resulted in more than 33,000 U.S. overdose deaths in 2015, making drug overdose the No. 1 cause of accidental death in the nation. The overdose death rate has quadrupled since the 1990s, as have sales of prescription painkillers, according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine.