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Millions of dollars and several hundred thousand lives could be saved if more hospitals followed a simple best practice the swallow test for stroke victims, assert researchers in a new study in the journal Neurology.1 Aspiration, note medical experts, in the main pneumonia risk is stroke patients.
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Fuqua Heart Center of Atlanta (GA) at Piedmont Hospital has used telehealth technology to significantly reduce the rate of hospital readmissions for heart failure patients.
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As part of the Department of Health and Human Services' Value-Driven Health Care initiative, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has launched a compendium of health care report cards. It is designed to provide health care report card developers and researchers a range of models on which to base future work.
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Medication management is a major challenge with the Medicare population. Many are on multiple medications. They forget to take their medicine or get confused about what pill to take when and whether they should take it with or without food. Some have visual problems or low literacy levels and can't read and understand the labels.
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A team approach by community-based personnel from Green Ribbon Health is helping chronically ill Medicare participants learn to manage their conditions, improve their health, and preserve their independence.
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The cost of treating pressure ulcers is estimated at $9 billion per year and the cost for care for home health patients with pressure ulcers is 36% more than the cost of caring for home health patients without pressure ulcers.
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Home health managers are very aware of the need to conduct performance improvement projects, but 27% of home health agencies surveyed in 2006 by The Joint Commission did not have an ongoing program for proactive identification or resolution of potential adverse events.
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Millions of dollars and several hundred thousand lives could be saved if more hospitals followed a simple best practice -- the swallow test -- for stroke victims, assert researchers in a new study in the journal Neurology.
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Discharge planners/case managers are likely to encounter instances in which home care, hospice, and home medical equipment (HME) providers state that they cannot accept patients because they are "unsafe" at home.
