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She may be an ideal candidate for thrombolytic therapy: A woman tells triage nurses that she first noticed symptoms exactly two hours ago. But by the time the patient is appropriately assessed, the window of time for eligibility to be treated with thrombolytics has passed.
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One of the issues constantly plaguing emergency departments (EDs) is the hidden bed a precious commodity when a crunch is on. But there are a number of methods that can help identify those beds sooner, says Marty Karpiel, FACHE, FHFMA, president of Karpiel Consulting Group in Long Beach, CA.
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Sometime in the next few years, your hospital could receive some of its Medicare reimbursement based on how well it performs, if the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) follows its typical course of action.
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Case managers will be invaluable to their hospitals if the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) institutes pay-for-performance measures for all hospitals, Teresa Fugate, RN, BBA, CPHQ, CCM, asserts.
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The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care, a consortium of five palliative care organizations, has released a set of clinical practice guidelines to promote quality palliative care in the United States.
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Expansions in public health insurance programs are designed to offer a safety net to vulnerable Americans unable to obtain basic health insurance and regular access to medical care.
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Patients who participate in clinical trials not only have access to newer, experimental treatments, they also have access to more routine medical checkups and state-of-the-art technologies. Yet for many women, participation in medical research studies is still not an option.
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Would you like to be able to boast that your organization performed hundreds of surgeries without a single infection or reduced rates of surgical infections dramatically? By making specific process changes, these impressive results can be achieved.
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The shared vision of providing safe, quality patient care was very evident during a recent Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations survey at the 59th Medical Wing at Lackland (TX) Air Force Base, reports Lt. Col. Biancanieves Garza, NC, CPHQ, chief of compliance and performance improvement.