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If you want to convince your hospital administration to approve case managers in the emergency department, you have to put together a plan that outlines why doing so would be in the hospital's best interest, suggests Toni Cesta, RN, PhD, FAAN, senior vice president, operational efficiency and capacity management at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, and health care consultant and partner in Case Management Concepts LLC.
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By providing care coordination throughout the continuum for patients with multiple chronic conditions, the Sacramento Sierra Region of Sutter Health has significantly decreased emergency department visits and hospitalizations.
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Increased communication among the multidisciplinary patient care team has increased patient throughput at Duke University Hospital, a 924-bed acute care facility in Durham, NC.
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Several national forces are driving energy into research that heavily relies on clinical data registries. The federal stimulus money that's available to hospitals that upgrade their electronic database technology and for comparative effectiveness research is a chief driver of this trend.
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The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) new final rule on expanded access to investigational drugs has the potential to result in increasing clinical trials through its advocacy of intermediate-size patient populations.
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It was a foreshadowing of a health care reform debate that has one side arguing that living wills are suicide pacts between patients and clinicians.
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Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is gaining momentum in the United States, but it's been used for years in other countries.
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Researchers seeking to change adolescent girls' health behavior found that using a Web site could enhance outcomes, a recent study shows.
