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Continue Communication After Patients Leave the Hospital
Hospitals that are doing the best in avoiding major penalties for readmissions are providing post-discharge visits to reinforce teaching, review medication, and make sure patients have a follow-up appointment and keep the appointment.
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Readmission Reduction Starts in the ED
Readmission reduction efforts should start in the ED, when patients first come into the hospital and when they make a return visit.
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Cross-continuum Collaboration is Essential in Today’s World
If hospitals are to reduce readmissions, it’s essential for them to partner with organizations in the community that provide post-acute care.
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Readmissions Are Down, Penalties Are Up — What Do You Do Now?
The Medicare readmission reduction program has been in place for five years but, despite decreasing readmissions, hospitals are still receiving penalties — $528 million in fiscal 2017 alone.
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570 Clinics Found Marketing Unproven Stem Cell Treatments
Stem cell interventions are offered at 570 clinics, with generally unproven treatments being marketed to consumers, found a recent study.
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Cost Savings for Palliative Care in ACOs ‘Astounding,’ Say Researchers
Home-based palliative care within an accountable care organization was associated with significant cost savings, fewer hospitalizations, and increased hospice use in the final months of life, found a recent study.
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Ethical Responses if Patient is Offended by a Healthcare Provider’s Tattoos
If a healthcare provider’s visible tattoos offend a patient or family member, does this supersede the clinician’s rights to self-expression?
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Ethical Concerns if Cancer Drugs, and Science in General, are Overhyped
Half of the cancer drugs described with superlatives such as “breakthrough,” “groundbreaking” and “game-changer” were not yet approved as safe and effective, found a recent study.
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Surprising Conflicts of Advisory Committee Speakers
Much attention has been paid to clinicians with financial ties to industry and resulting conflicts of interest, but patients who speak at public meetings also have financial ties, found a recent analysis.
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Some Older, Chronically Ill Patients Don’t Realize They Have a Choice in Deciding Surgery
Patients and family members were surprised that postoperative recovery was so difficult, and lacked knowledge on advance directives and the fact that they could decline major surgery.