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More than 6.5 million adults and 3.2 million children have an asthma attack each year, according to data collected in 2000 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
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HealthPartners of Minneapolis has created a program that bridges the gap between the health plans member services line and the after-hours nurse triage line.
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A truck driver for a large freight company was hundreds of miles from home when he began having chest pains.
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Nurse triage services offered by health plans can improve members access to care, reduce unnecessary or avoidable emergency department (ED) and physician office visits, improve members satisfaction, and proactively identify members in need of case management or disease management services.
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Case managers at Presbyterian Health Plan in Albuquerque, NM, conduct monthly cost-benefit analyses to help demonstrate the benefits of their interventions.
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When Presbyterian Health Plan merged its commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid managed care products, the case managers decided to take the merger a step further.
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Safer sharps led to a dramatic decline in the number of needlesticks, with nurses sustaining about half as many injuries in 2001 as they did in 1993.
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This is an excerpt from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance document on the use of respirators to prevent transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
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A shortage of N95 respirators has forced hospitals to scramble for supplies as they seek to expand their respiratory protection program in response to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).