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HICPAC Taking New Approach to IC Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s principle infection control advisory committee is taking steps to clarify its recommendations, be more transparent about its review of research, and, to paraphrase Voltaire, quit making “perfect the enemy of good.” -
IC Leadership Rounds: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Once consigned to silos themselves, infection preventionists are increasingly out on the floors and inviting their administrators to join them in “leadership rounds.” -
Lightning Strikes: Fatal Infections of Rare Origin
Consider two separate tales of transplant and transfusion gone horribly awry by the narrowest of margins. Each represents a conspiracy of unlikely events that enabled deadly pathogens to find a path to frail patients. -
Study: Diagnostic Accuracy Still Largest Claims Risk
Diagnosis-related events are the single largest root cause of medical professional liability claims, according to a recent analysis from Coverys.
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Avoiding Costs, Risks Through Reduced Hospitalization Among Older Adults
New research involving three medical centers suggests that older patients seen by transitional care nurses with geriatric training are less likely to be admitted than similar patients who do not receive these specialized evaluations.
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Mobile Integrated Health Helps With Patients’ Transitioning Gap
A health system uses mobile integrated health to improve outcomes and reduce readmission rates among patients with chronic conditions such as heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Here’s How CHAMP Helps High-risk Asthma Patients
Called Changing High-risk Asthma in Memphis through Partnership, or CHAMP, the program incorporates various best practices, including early identification of children who could most benefit from the case management intervention.
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Asthma Case Management Program Helps Improve Children’s Health
A Memphis-based pediatric asthma program quickly produced positive results for patients and Tennessee’s Medicaid program due to its community, healthcare provider, and payer collaboration.
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Popular Tools Being Discontinued
Two tools popular with quality improvement professionals are being discontinued, at least temporarily.
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Humana Will Pay More for Quality
The insurer also will use additional measures, including healthcare-associated infection rates, care coordination, palliative care, and more to assess performance and set reimbursement rates.