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Age-Friendly Initiative: Is Your Hospital Ready?
Case managers see it all the time: an older adult who has difficulty navigating the healthcare system. And, too often, this difficulty can lead to 30-day readmissions because the patient did not receive optimal care.
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Maternal Mortality Risks Include Accidents and Domestic Violence
Some maternal injuries are caused by accidents and intimate partner violence. Case managers should be alert to signs and symptoms and educate about prevention.
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Hospitals Sometimes Diagnose Critical Obstetric Illness Too Late
The key to setting up a program for recognizing and managing maternal compromise is to create a team and train staff on how to recognize early warning signs.
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The Joint Commission's New Perinatal Safety Standards Explained
Hospital Case Management asked Jennifer Hurlburt, MSN, RN, APN/CNS, associate director of The Joint Commission’s department of standards and survey methods, to answer a few questions about TJC’s Proposed Standards for Perinatal Safety, published April 17, 2019.
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Hospitals Can Do More to Prevent Maternal Deaths
The Joint Commission published its new Proposed Standards for Perinatal Safety in April to provide evidence-based procedures that hospitals can use to identify and treat maternal hemorrhage and pre-eclampsia.
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Few Cardiology Treatment Recommendations Based on High-Quality Evidence
The proportion of recommendations supported by data from randomized controlled trials actually decreased from 2008. In looking at updated guidelines, the researchers found that fewer recommendations were supported by randomized controlled trials than in the prior versions.
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Ethics of Cellphone Use in Clinic Waiting Rooms
Ethical issues related to patient cellphone use center around the physician-patient relationship. At issue: How to balance the value of both physicians’ and patients’ time.
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New Data Shed Light on Scientific Misconduct
Publication pressure is one of the strongest predictors of research misconduct.
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Ethics Champion Program Empowers Clinical Teams
As healthcare organizations become more complex, there is a greater need for ethical discussion. Ethics champion programs are one way of encouraging discussions.
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Study: Trust in Physicians Declined When Industry Ties Reported
Research suggests that when patients know that individual doctors receive industry payments, the patients trusted those specific doctors less. The researchers found that transparency negatively affected both patient trust in their own doctors and in the medical profession.