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The transition from hospital to home health can be a rocky one, which is why hospital discharge planners need to make communication with home health staff a priority, experts say.
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Clinicians often fail to identify patients who need home care services or other post-acute care after they're discharged from the hospital, research shows.
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After years of research regarding post-acute care referrals and outcomes of at-risk patients, a researcher has concluded that more education and discharge planning resources are needed.
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Discharge planners soon will have revised guidelines to assist them with case management adherence.
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The first step to teaching patients who have low health literacy is to assess the barriers to their understanding medical instructions, an expert advises.
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Anticoagulation therapy is effective and common treatment for many hospital patients, but there's a high risk for certain patients, including those over age 70.
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Discharge planners can prevent many problems that might occur during a patient's transition from the hospital to home care by focusing on communication with staff from the home care agency or other post-acute setting.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), of Baltimore, requires Condition Code 42 to be used when a hospital patient is discharged to home health services.
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Hospital providers need to be fully aware of the new steps taken by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to report and prevent hospital-acquired conditions.
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