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National Case Management Week, Oct. 8-14, 2006, is a great opportunity to make sure that the case managers on your staff feel appreciated and that their contributions are recognized by the entire hospital.
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Coordinating care for complex patients is knowledge work that often requires deep concentration. And deep concentration requires periods of uninterrupted time.
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Do you identify patients at risk for suicide? Do you give patients a list of their medications? And do you encourage patients to report safety risks?
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Before Mease (FL) Dunedin Hospital began a Six Sigma project to improve patient discharge, only 45% of patients whose discharge orders were issued by noon were being discharged by 1 p.m.
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When traumatically injured patients are admitted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the only Level 1 Trauma Center in New Hampshire, their care is coordinated from arrival in the emergency department (ED) through discharge.
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Study delays continue to accelerate costs of conducting clinical trial research and are a problem for clinical trial sites, as well as sponsors.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has collected complaints about investigators for decades, but a look at the volume of complaints within the past eight years shows there are major compliance concerns at present.
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The use of data mining in the pharmaceutical clinical trial industry might still be in the Triassic era, but that is changing.
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In this question-and-answer article, R. Colin Garner, BPharm, PhD, DSc, FRCPath, chief executive officer of Xceleron, Ltd. of York, England, discusses how microdosing works, and why it is useful for reducing cost and time in clinical trial work.
