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Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus improved "off" motor symptoms and quality of life in advanced Parkinson's disease, but was associated with an increased rate of serious adverse events.
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Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has multiple subtypes, and the subtype has an effect on the sensitivity of commonly utilized diagnostic tests in the workup of CJD.
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Severe tongue protrusion dystonia is disabling and occasionally life-threatening, and may suggest either a secondary cause or particular heredodegenerative diseases.
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The denial rate at Southern Ocean County Hospital dropped from the double digits to an average of 5.8% in less than 18 months, thanks to a proactive approach by the case management staff and the medical director.
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When NorthEast Medical Center in Concord, NC, began an initiative to improve compliance with clinical quality indicators in 2003, compliance for the congestive heart failure and pneumonia clinical indicators was at 84%. In the most recent quarter, the hospital met those indicators 96% of the time.
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Examining how communities in the United States coped with the 1918 flu pandemic could help today's public health planners in their preparations for the next flu pandemic, according to the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a solicitation to implement a health promotion and disease prevention program through the Medicare Senior Risk Reduction Demonstration. The program enhances CMS' focus on prevention of chronic disease in the Medicare population.
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Salaries for case managers are increasing, but the vast majority of case managers are working far more than the traditional 40-hour week, according to respondents to the 2006 Hospital Case Management Salary Survey.
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Case managers should be part of the team that ensures hospitals meet the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' medication reconciliation requirements, says Patrice Spath, RHIT, health care quality consultant with Brown-Spath & Associates in Forest Grove, OR.
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At El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, CA, medication reconciliation is an essential part of the admissions process that needs to continue at discharge or transfer of care, reports Michael Fitzgerald, MS, RN, CS, clinical nurse specialist, who chairs the hospital's medication reconciliation committee.
