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Progress lags on needlestick prevention
Needlestick injuries remain stubbornly common, despite a long-standing federal law and worker safety regulations requiring an annual review of safety devices. Forging a path to improvement requires collaboration with hospital purchasing and quality improvement, says the coordinator of the nation’s most comprehensive needlestick surveillance system.
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New model significantly reduces boarding of psychiatric patients
No problem has proven more vexing to ED leaders in recent years than the issue of boarding related to patients with mental health concerns. It is not unusual for these patients to be held in the ED for hours, if not days, before a psychiatric bed is found. This has the effect of running up the healthcare tab while bogging down throughput, and it leaves virtually no one satisfied.
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Actively engage patients following these simple tips
Evidence-based health coaching (EBHC), a novel approach to engaging patients, combined with motivational interviewing can produce lasting change because it delves into the reasons behind patients’ resistance, one expert says.
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Examples of EBHC And MI in practice
The traditional provider-patient exchange can result in misunderstanding and a patient’s incomplete knowledge of what he or she needs to do to maintain better health, one expert says.
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Patient Engagement is Goal for Case Managers
Case managers can help patients with health behavior changes by combining evidence-based health coaching and motivational interviewing.
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Case Management, Advocacy and the Affordable Care Act
With the surge in the number of newly insured under the Affordable Care Act, case managers increasingly need to serve as patient advocates.
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Embedded CMs reduce readmissions, increase follow-up, cut costs
After Sentara Healthcare System’s embedded case management program was redesigned, the total cost of care for patients in the program dropped by 17% over a three-year period. -
Understand, reduce HCW absenteeism
The answer should restore a little of your faith in humanity. For the most part, healthcare workers call in with legitimate illness. -
Care coordinators help close gaps in care, lower costs
An initiative that included hiring an RN care coordinator to work with patients who needed a higher level of care, or had gaps in care, resulted in significant improvements in preventive care exams, lower costs for hospitalizations, and a decrease in emergency department visits for patients in the program at Jackson Clinic, a multispecialty practice with 136 providers in western Tennessee. -
Patients at risk for medication stoppage
According to a report1 from the The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), patients discharged from acute care hospitals might be at risk for unintentional discontinuation of medications prescribed for chronic diseases. The report says that the intensive care unit (ICU) might pose an even greater risk because of the focus on acute events and the presence of multiple transitions in care.