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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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Kalhan and colleagues at the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (a participating ARDSNet investigation site) performed a prospective observational cohort study of patients with acute lung injury (ALI) or the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) managed in their ICUs during a 22-month period beginning after publication of the initial ARDSNet study.
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Despite favorable reviews, limited evidence supports the benefit of high fidelity human simulation (HFHS) in preference to more traditional forms of health care provider education.
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Nosocomial infections are unfortunately common in intensive care units all across the United States. Although a wide variety of guidelines and treatment options exist for common types of nosocomial infections, such as catheter-related bloodstream infections or the ventilator-associated pneumonia, much less importance is given in critical care to Clostridium difficile infections.
