Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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Missed Nursing Care and Declining Patient Safety
While the immediate effect of the COVID-19 omicron variant on the healthcare workforce is the pressing issue, there were serious concerns about staff shortages and the effect of “missed nursing care” on patients well before the pandemic. -
Integrating Behavioral Health and Medical Case Management
The effects of COVID-19 have brought behavioral health issues to light — and, in some cases, the handling of the pandemic has even caused behavioral health problems. With more patients presenting with mental and behavioral health issues, it is more important than ever to consider a collaborative model of care. -
Focus on Quintuple Aim to Address Workforce Burnout and Equity
If there is anything the COVID-19 crisis has shown healthcare leaders and case managers, it is the triple aim of focusing on improving population health, enhancing care experience, and reducing overall costs is not enough to improve value-based care. A quintuple aim of also prioritizing health equity and workforce wellness/burnout is needed. Both became crises during the pandemic. -
Remote Monitoring Program Benefits Patients — but Not Without Some Barriers
A remote monitoring program for patients with COVID-19 worked, but was less successful for Black patients, according to the results of a recent study. -
Discharge Waiting Room Gives Patients a Comfortable Place Between Bed and Home
A health system’s nurse case manager oversees a discharge waiting lobby that has helped shorten the time to discharge patients and frees beds for patients waiting in the ED. The discharge waiting lobby helps ease transitions during a difficult time for hospitals.
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Ethicist: Case Managers Can Fairly and Ethically Handle Patient Refusal to Discharge
In this Q&A, Trevor Bibler, PhD, MTS, assistant professor at the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine, explains the ethical dilemma of transitioning patients who refuse to leave the hospital. -
Why Some Children Develop Severe COVID-19 Disease
Severe outcomes included cardiovascular complications, neurologic complications, respiratory problems, and infectious-related issues. Those with pre-existing chronic disease, older age, and longer symptom duration put them at serious risk for severe outcomes.
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Community-Acquired Pneumonia in the Era of COVID-19
Community-acquired pneumonia is a leading infectious cause of hospitalization and mortality, with increased prevalence during the current COVID-19 pandemic. It is important to focus on appropriate testing, prompt treatment, and disposition to improve outcomes and maximize efficient use of limited resources during this global pandemic.
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ACC Publishes Guidance on Managing Cardiovascular Ailments Post-COVID Infection
Expert panel created document to help clinicians manage patients with myocarditis and other long COVID problems associated with SARS-CoV-2.
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Prevalence of Acute Myocarditis Related to COVID-19 Vaccination and SARS-CoV-2
Acute myocarditis is a diagnosis that has had a significant rise in prevalence and is the center of many recent discussions in the medical literature. Much of this recent increase has been secondary to SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 vaccines. Amid the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, acute myocarditis has become much more prevalent in patients where it was previously a rare pathology. As a result of this outbreak, it has become a disease entity necessitating new and ever evolving clinical guidelines.