Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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COVID Watch Text Program Enhances Case Management and Monitoring of Patients
The University of Pennsylvania’s new texting program, called COVID Watch, could play a key role in the future of monitoring COVID-19 patients after discharge. The program sends automated text messages in English and Spanish twice a day for 14 days, asking patients if their symptoms are better, the same, or worse. -
Hospitals and Case Managers Improve Care Transitions for COVID-19 Patients
After 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals are learning how to efficiently and safely transition these patients to community settings. For example, one study showed an ED and hospital patient throughput management program can save hundreds of hospital patient days after discharge from the ED or observation unit stays. -
Vaccines Are Available, but the Search for COVID-19 Therapeutics Continues
Right after the FDA issued an emergency use authorization for one drug, feds pressed pause on distributing another. -
The Effect of Antiviral Drugs on COVID-19 Outcomes and Mortality
The WHO Solidarity Trial Consortium found remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir, and interferon regimens produced “little or no effect” on relevant outcomes. -
Risk Managers Stressed by COVID-19, Other Pressures
Burnout and severe stress brought on by the pandemic may affect risk managers and patient safety professionals more than commonly known. Most attention related to stress is focused on frontline clinicians, but the effect on risk managers appears to be substantial. -
‘COVID Glow’ May Bring Benefits in Malpractice Litigation
Hospitals and other healthcare organizations could benefit from a COVID-19 “glow” or “halo effect” in which medical malpractice juries look more favorably on defendants because of the public’s positive perception of healthcare workers. The portrayal of doctors and nurses as heroes might leave a lasting impression that affects how jurors perceive defense arguments. -
Has the Unmasked Person Beside You Been Immunized for COVID-19?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent recommendation that those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can shed their masks and drop social distancing in many public situations was a bridge too far for some critics.
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OSHA’s COVID-19 Reg Codifies CDC Guidelines
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued an emergency temporary standard to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19, putting regulatory teeth into recommended practices by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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EEOC: Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Allowed Under Federal Laws
On the same date a lawsuit was filed by employees of Houston Methodist for its COVID-19 vaccination mandate, a leading federal employment discrimination agency said employers can require worker vaccinations with reasonable accommodations.
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COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: Too Soon, Inevitable, or Both?
Healthcare facilities likely will win the burgeoning legal fight to mandate COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment, providing they allow for medical and religious exemptions.