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COVID-19 Shuts Down Nation; Family Planning Need Not Stop
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of American life, including nonemergency doctor visits. But from a family reproductive health point of view, the consequences of weeks of social distancing and quarantines can present new challenges.
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ICU to Long-Term Acute Care: Seamless Transition, Fewer Readmissions
When a seriously ill patient has not stabilized in the ICU, the next step may be a long-term acute care hospital like Spaulding Hospital Cambridge — which often is a difficult transition. Six years ago, Spaulding joined nearby Brigham and Women’s Hospital in creating the Integrated Patient Centered Care in Chronic Critical Illness program to provide a seamless transition of care for these patients and their families.
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Ethics, Case Managers, and the Value Proposition
The pressures case managers face are a reality in a value-based healthcare system. Cost of care and penalties for readmissions are the bottom line in every institution, and that pressure will affect how well case managers perform in their everyday duties. To uphold their ethical tenets, and advocate in the best interests of their patients, a case manager must be prepared to handle these pressures.
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How to Provide Culturally Competent Care
With the increased diversity among today’s hospital patients, case managers must be careful to understand each patient’s culture. People coming from different countries have different expectations of the healthcare system.
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Focusing on Social Determinants of Health Can Reduce ED Revisit Rates
A case management program that focuses on social determinants of health helped a hospital system reduce revisit rates in its ED. The ED’s revisit rate dropped from 6% to 3%.
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COVID-19 Pandemic Changes Nation While Hospitals and Case Managers Cope
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted American life and threatens to inundate hospitals with critically ill patients through the spring. Hospitals and case managers can use phone and video conferencing when feasible. Also, they can follow all infectious disease prevention measures.
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IRBs Can Prepare for Cannabis Research
The cannabis industry is a booming economic force across the nation as states increasingly legalize the sale of medical and/or recreational marijuana. It remains on the national Schedule I list of drugs that are not acceptable for legal sale. But what do healthcare providers really understand about the drug’s safety, risks, and benefits? Not enough, human research protection professionals say.
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New Working Group to Produce Guidance for Pediatric Gene Therapy
The NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s working group on Pediatric Gene Therapy and Medical Ethics formed in the fall of 2019 to address and propose recommendations to issues involving gene-based therapies in pediatric populations, including research activities.
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Interactive Online Checklists Help Investigators With Informed Consent
A recent study revealed that an informed consent checklist of basic consent elements guides investigators on how to present key information required by the Common Rule.
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Study Reveals Preferences for Simpler Research Language
Boilerplate language for informed consent documents is simple, but not always easy for study participants to understand. The goal for IRBs is to help researchers simplify the words and scientific jargon they use to describe studies to participants, but it is unclear how this can be accomplished. One solution is the Consent Language Explicit And Reasonable Initiative.