Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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Feds Redefine Who Can Handle COVID-19 Vaccine
HHS expands list of who can prescribe, dispense, and administer shots.
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Capacity and COVID-19: Where Is Case Management?
As of this writing, there are reports about hospitals across the country that have reached or exceeded capacity. These hospitals have only one or two available critical care beds, and some have no open medical or surgical beds. It is clear the hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases, and they are coming at rates that are outside the bounds of anyone’s experience. But as I listen, I have to wonder. Where is case management? Are these administrators using case management to its fullest? Is there a capacity management plan?
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The Need for More Post-Acute COVID-19 Care Is on the Rise
Hospitals nationwide have focused on handling overflow of COVID-19 patients needing acute care. They also are developing programs to handle post-acute medical problems discharged COVID-19 patients face.
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Teletriage Applications Help EDs Improve Efficiency, Respond to COVID-19 Pandemic
A virtual intake process has helped many providers handle the multiple priorities involved with caring for a surging number of patients with a highly infectious disease while keeping staff and other patients safe.
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A Care Path Program Helps with COVID-19 Case Management
A patient-centric care coordination model is needed to help patients with COVID-19 after they are discharged from the hospital.
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AAAHC Offers Advice on Administering COVID-19 Vaccine
Surgery centers must interpret existing standards in a way that encompasses what is required for COVID-19 and how to handle the vaccine and its administration. The best course of action is for leaders to refer to accreditation standards on vaccines for general guidance.
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From the Public Perspective
The COVID-19 pandemic is not over yet, but there may be light at the end of the tunnel, and what comes next is slowly coming into focus.
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A Ground-Level Look at the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
About a month into the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, one surgery center nurse leader still was struggling to secure shots for her staff. The hurdles included multiple phone calls, dead-end leads, and long waits for an unsure outcome.
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Experts Revisit Processes Surrounding Crisis Standards of Care
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare practitioners have observed challenges related to the implementation of crisis standards of care (CSC), a declaration that should be made only when all other options have failed. Experts report there has been a lack of consistency in such decision-making. In some cases, CSC decisions are made unnecessarily, putting patients at risk. They advise re-examining plans for CSC devised before the pandemic to incorporate recent lessons learned.
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Tools Keep Tabs on Patients Remotely, Predicting Outcomes and Conserving Resources
Researchers developed an automated text messaging approach that can monitor patients who have been discharged from the ED. Other investigators have leveraged artificial intelligence to train an algorithm to help emergency clinicians better predict outcomes and manage resources.