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Implementing Restrictive Transfusion Strategies to Improve Patient Outcomes
There is extensive evidence supporting a restrictive transfusion approach in critically ill patients and cardiac surgery patients. The data favor restrictive strategies in hip and knee surgery, except in geriatric patients for whom evidence favors a more liberal transfusion strategy. Evidence is sparse in sepsis, oncology, and acute coronary syndrome patients, warranting further study.
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CMS Issues Text Message Guidance
CMS has issued clarification of its position regarding the use of text messaging with patient information between providers, saying it is “permissible if accomplished through a secure platform.”
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JAHF Age-friendly Initiative Showing Results
The John A. Hartford Foundation's Age-Friendly Health System initiative seeks to improve care transitions and the way episodes of care are addressed for an aging population. -
Move to Fewer and Better Measures, Physicians Say
Existing quality measures should be winnowed down from several hundred to two dozen. -
Streamlining Metrics Helps With ‘Measurement Mania’
Quality metrics should be streamlined to focus only on those that truly affect patient care. -
Patient Engagement, Net Promoter Scores Increased With Feedback
Improving patient feedback can dramatically increase engagement levels with caregivers and decrease turnover, leading to an overall improvement in the quality of care, one hospital reports. -
Focus on QAPI Helps Hospital Overcome Bad Survey
A poor accreditation survey is bad news for any hospital, but with the right approach it can be the beginning of systematic improvements that improve quality throughout the organization. -
FDA Actions
In this section: The agency tackles loperamide abuse, approves new breast cancer treatment, updates guidance on opioid cough and cold medications, promotes new opportunities to battle the opioid epidemic, and issues new indication for an irritable bowel drug.
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Oral Medications for Toenail Fungus
Researchers compared terbinafine to placebo and other oral antifungals, including the azole antifungals (ketoconazole, itraconazole, and fluconazole) and Griseofulvin.
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Fish Oil for Heart Patients?
The authors of a recent meta-analysis concluded that omega-3 fatty acids produced no effects on fatal or nonfatal coronary heart disease, nor on any major vascular events.