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Are Lengthier Interviews on Readmission Worth the Time?
Some hospitals are implementing more in-depth patient interviews on readmission, seeking to collect more and better data that can help identify quality issues that might be addressed. But these interviews are time- and resource-intensive, so do the results justify the investment?
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Hospital Uses Real-Time Interviews for Better Data
When a quality improvement committee at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, MN, sought to reduce readmissions, the members realized that they did not have sufficient data to identify the reasons patients returned. Forty percent of their readmission records indicated “other” as the reason, rather than the possible causes listed.
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Reduce Readmissions with Better Data Analysis
Readmissions can never be low enough, so hospitals are constantly looking for better ways to reduce them. Some are finding that success depends on collecting good data, because you can’t reduce readmissions if you don’t know what’s bringing people back to your door.
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: treating refractory chronic pruritus, accelerating weight loss with technology, and lowering uric acid in gout patients.
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Eteplirsen Injection (Exondys 51)
Eteplirsen is indicated for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in patients who present with confirmed mutation of the DMD gene that is amenable to exon 51 skipping.
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Warning: Reactivation of Hepatitis B Virus Coinfection During Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection
Prior to initiation of hepatitis C virus treatment with direct-acting antivirals, patients should be screened for hepatitis B virus coinfection.
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Changing Gut Microbiota to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
The long-term consumption of a healthy diet, such as the Mediterranean diet or low-fat/high complex carbohydrate diets, may exert a protective effect on the development of type 2 diabetes by changing the gut microbiota.
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Statins Associated with Lower Parkinson’s Risk in Diabetics
In approximately 50,000 individuals with Parkinson’s disease and diabetes, identified from a National Health Insurance database in Taiwan, statin use was dose-dependently associated with lower risk of Parkinson’s disease.
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Alzheimer’s Disease: What the Primary Care Physician Needs to Know
This article explores current medical approaches to Alzheimer’s dementia, the most common subtype of the known dementias or neurocognitive disorders. Preventive treatment is at the forefront of efforts to defeat this progressively impairing disorder; but to be effective, intervention must start well before symptoms begin. The role of the primary care provider in initiating vigorous and early preventive measures and applying appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions at each stage of disease progression is reviewed and discussed.
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Should We Still Be Performing Annual Pelvic Exams?
<>The recent draft guidance from the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) on the utility of periodic screening with the pelvic examination has inspired renewed debate on this topic.