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Surprising Data on Hospice in Nursing Homes: It Doesn’t Increase Care Costs
Providing hospice services in the last six months of life for nursing home residents does not increase costs, found a recent study.
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Updated Code of Medical Ethics Arrives: What Changes Mean
The American Medical Association’s Code of Medical Ethics has been newly modernized, with hope that increasing numbers of practicing physicians, residents, and medical students will turn to it for guidance.
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Training, Drills Pivotal in Mounting Response to Orlando Shooting
Emergency providers generally have some warning when a hurricane or another natural disaster poses risks to the community. However, that is rarely the case with a mass shooting, as was evident in the early morning hours of June 12, when a lone gunman opened fire inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL.
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Case Manager Offers Strategies to Improve Patient Communication
When working with elderly patients, it’s a good idea to initiate your visit or phone call with a conversation rather than direct health-related questions, suggests a case manager who has extensive geriatric experience and visits patients at their homes.
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Care Management Can Drive Capitated Care Success
Case managers’ roles are evolving through focus on capitated models that focus on keeping patients out of hospitals and emergency rooms.
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Case Managers Offer Advice on Handling Mass Shootings
Case managers can help their health systems prepare for the effects of mass shooting by taking several additional emergency preparedness steps.
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Case Manager Leadership Needed in Mass Shootings, Major Traumas
U.S. hospitals handle, on average, victims from a mass shooting every day. For most case managers, it’s not a matter of whether they and their colleagues will experience that traumatic event, but when.
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Report: NIH Clinical Center Riddled With Research Problems
The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center — one of the most prestigious research institutions in the world — has been rocked by an independent panel report that found glaring errors in research oversight and safety.
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Internet Research and the IRB: Change is the Constant
Like a geologist identifying strata of rock, Elizabeth Buchanan, PhD, describes three distinct eras of the internet as a way of coming to grips with its profound implications for human research: the Old Ways, Social Media, and Big Data.
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Smoothing the Path for an IRB of Record
As increasing numbers of IRBs are entering into central IRB agreements, there are steps they can take to better prepare, including building trust with other research organizations and IRBs, experts say.