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One of the most difficult encounters for medical staff is simultaneously informing a family of the death of a loved one and bringing up the idea of donating organs and tissues. Staff awareness of resources to coordinate organ procurement and the staffs attitude toward organ procurement can make a big difference in an areas organ procurement rate.
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Dying patients discuss physician-assisted suicide; Public plea spurs new liver, plus some debate; Medical schools tighten conflicts-of-interest standards; Video: How to talk about medical errors.
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Want to cut your diversion hours down to zero? Thats exactly what Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, CA, has done by instituting its emergency saturation triage, or Code EST. When Code EST was implemented in July 2000, diversion hours were about 130 monthly.
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Question: How do we avoid patient hoarding, in which nurses or physicians intentionally delay moving a patient out to delay the next patient and give themselves a breather?
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An enhanced care management program is the keystone of Bon Secours Health Systems systemwide performance improvement initiatives in connection with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services pay-for-performance demonstration project.
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Acute myocardial infarction; Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG); Heart failure; Community-acquired pneumonia; Hip and knee replacement.
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A post-discharge follow-up program for congestive heart failure (CHF) patients has decreased the readmission rate by more than half at Harper University Hospital in Detroit. Nurse case managers specially trained to do triage assessment by telephone follow up with the CHF patients after discharge, making sure patients monitor their weight and blood pressure on a daily basis and reinforcing the patient education instructions patients received during their hospital stay.
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What has been called the first large-scale study to examine patient safety issues for isolated coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) showed that hospitals with the highest compliance with three recommended protocols had notably lower risk-adjusted mortality rates than those hospitals whose compliance ranked in the bottom 20%.