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Occupational health professionals are constantly looking for ways to improve return to work (RTW) for injured or ill employees, but there has been little in the way of research into what makes disability leave, RTW, and stay at work (SAW) plans work or fail.
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In the first six months of Keystone Mercy Health Plans Healthy Hoops program, which combines basketball and asthma management, the percentage of children in the program with an emergency department visit for asthma fell 26%, the percentage of children with a hospital admission decreased by 8%, and nighttime awakenings decreased by 70% among program participants.
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Members of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouris Postpartum Depression Screening Program consistently give the St. Louis-based health plan patient satisfaction scores in the 90th percentile.
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Its been more than six years since the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published its compliance program guidance for hospices, listing 28 areas in which hospices are particularly vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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Heart failure patients are less likely to die after they go home from the hospital if the hospital has participated in an organized quality improvement program, compared with patients treated at hospitals where such efforts arent undertaken, a new study from the University of Michigan Health System finds.
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Case managers have a lot of choices when it comes to what professional organizations to join and which certifications to pursue. There are a wide variety of organizations on the local, state, and national levels, along with several case management certifications.
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This is an excerpt from the Guidelines for Using Quantiferon-TB Gold issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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After years of frustration with tuberculin skin tests, hospitals have a chance to revolutionize their TB screening with a new blood test.
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In a major new emphasis on patient safety, the JCAHO is warning that failure to keep track of the medications needed by transferred patients is resulting in preventable deaths.
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For many hospitals, encouraging health care workers (HCWs) to receive the flu vaccine is an annual exercise in futility.