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For many years, infection-control experts have focused on improving the hand hygiene habits of health care providers.
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The NICO monitor (Respironics, Inc.) uses co2 production, estimated from changes in exhaled CO2 during a brief period of rebreathing, to determine cardiac output via the Fick relationship.
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Home health nurses know that depression affects every aspect of a patient's health care and potential outcome, but according to a recent study, depression also affects the total cost of health care services for the depressed patient.
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If your patients aren't following their treatment plan, it may not be that they are non-adherent. It could be that they simply do not understand what they are expected to do.
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Recognizing that low health literacy has a dramatic effect on patient outcomes and the cost of care, the AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies has launched a program to make sure its members understand their treatment plans.
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Hospitals are losing large amounts of money on extra and inappropriate diagnostic testing and procedures, as well as outpatient procedures performed in the inpatient setting because third-party payers frequently are denying the claims, says Brenda Keeling, RN, CPHQ, CPUR, of Patient Response, a Milburn, OK, health care consulting firm.
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The nurses and social workers in the mental health home care program offered by Visiting Nurse Services in Westchester in White Plains, NY, do serve as clinical expert resources for staff members of the medical home health side of the agency, but they also offer home care services to patients whose primary diagnosis is a mental health illness.
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Assessing depression in an older home care patient is not an easy task.
