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The professionals in the addiction treatment services team at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore have created an approach for treating methadone patients, called the motivated stepped care (MSC) model, which has decreased positive urine tests from 74% to 54% and increased group counseling attendance from 14% to 65%.
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With ever-growing data collection requirements from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, The Joint Commission, health plans, and state hospital associations, how can quality professionals keep up without adding an army of data abstractors?
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The quality of nursing care will have a much bigger impact on reimbursement than ever before, as a result of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) "no pay" conditions, according to a recent analysis.
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Your hospital is likely in the process of implementing a rapid response team (RRT), if one is not already in place but the team is probably focused on adult care. Now a small but growing number of hospitals are implementing pediatric RRTs to improve the care of children.
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A total of five MRI-related cases have been reported to The Joint Commission's Sentinel Event database, resulting in four deaths, including one case caused by a projectile and three cardiac events. The other case involved a misread MRI scan that resulted in delayed treatment.
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The mean age of attainment of menopause in American women51 yearshas not meaningfully changed over more than a century. During late reproductive life, pregnancy has more adverse consequences than in younger women.
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In This Issue: Shingles vaccine added to CDC list of vaccines for adults 60 and older; CDC recommends Tdap for postpartum women; new study suggests sequential therapy with antibiotics for H. pylori may be more effective than standard therapy; FDA Actions.
