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Competition among providers for referrals can be fierce. Managers are increasingly concerned about employees and independent contractors who leave organizations and take patients with them.
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A new study by physicians at the University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland reports a 46% reduction in the risk of falls for women more than 65 years of age.
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Although many in the field of health care think only the poorly educated fall into the category of low health literacy, that is not necessarily the case.
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In the first six months of Keystone Mercy Health Plan's 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%, ...
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You deliver some bad news to your next patient, a 16-year-old student: She has a chlamydia infection. She then asks, "What is chlamydia?"
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Which is best? Purchasing commercially produced teaching sheets or writing your own to distribute via the Intranet? The answer is not as simple as the question seems; there are many issues to consider.
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Laura Gebers, BSN, RN, BC, health education coordinator at Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, NJ, has set in place several tools to help ensure that patient education is documented correctly.
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When patients are referred to the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention in East Harlem, NY, they are met on their initial visit by a patient navigator whose job is to ensure that they receive a timely diagnosis and treatment.
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