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Patient Safety Alert supplement

January 1, 2005

Click here for the January 2005 Patient Safety Alert supplement.

Issue Date: January 1, 2005

Creativity is the key to discharge planning for hard-to-place patients
Hospitals challenged by patients who can’t pay
4 types of patients who may not be able to pay their bills
Establish a special area for nonurgent ED patients
Critical Path Network: Education decreases ED visits for young asthma patients
Critical Path Network: WebM&M teaches by example with case studies
Critical Path Network: Insurer refuses to pay for wrong-site/person surgery
Discharge Planning Advisor: HMSA case managers are patient advocates, not UMs
Team approach cuts costs for the chronically ill

Financial Disclosure: None of the authors or planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients

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