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Treatment, Trauma-Informed Care Elevate Behavioral Health Management
Boarding continues to be a major issue for EDs across the country faced with increasing numbers of patients who present with behavioral health-related emergencies. Many of these patients sit for hours or days in the ED awaiting transfer to another facility, often without receiving treatment for their concerns. Meanwhile, other patients wait longer for care because of limited bed availability.
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App Helps Case Managers Monitor Pregnancy Health
Technology, including smartphone apps, can help patients monitor their chronic conditions, prevent health crises, and give more information to case managers and others who are following these patient populations.
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ODG Guidelines Improve Care for Injured Workers
Workers’ compensation case managers routinely follow occupational disability guidelines in developing goals and plans for helping injured and ill workers recover and return to work safely and expeditiously.
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Workers’ Compensation Case Managers Improve Outcomes for Workers
Workers’ compensation case managers can help injured workers return to work much faster than they would without case management services and monitoring. Case managers can make a big difference on the long-term health and economic impact related to workers’ injuries on the job, even when the injury is less serious.
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Case Management Program Addresses Gaps in Behavioral Health Needs
EDs see at-risk patients with behavioral health needs that are not met in the community. Hospitals might not offer the best resources for these patients. A solution is a collaboration between a health system and community psychiatric health organizations.
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Survey: Physicians Embrace Digital Tools
Between 2016 and 2019, doctors’ adoption of many technology types increased, regardless of age, gender, or specialty.
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Falls in the Elderly
Falls in patients older than 65 years of age are an increasingly common presentation in U.S. emergency departments, and intricate knowledge and confidence in the evaluation and management of these patients is vital.
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Continuous Visible Lighting Disinfection May Offer Benefits
The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center recently replaced traditional light bulbs in its operating rooms with antibacterial LEDs for a visible-light continuous environmental disinfection system. Research suggests the fixtures can continuously kill harmful bacteria on high-risk surfaces, which should be an improvement over intermittent cleaning. Another common option, ultraviolet lighting, is not safe for human exposure and can only sanitize spaces once patients and staff leave the room.
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Surveillance Programs for Staff Working With Hazardous Medications
Looking for guidance on best practices for a hazardous medication surveillance program? Many employee health professionals may be making changes to their hazardous medication surveillance program in response to United States Pharmacopeia <800> standards.
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NIH Developing a Vaccine for 2019-nCoV
The National Institutes of Health has fast-tracked vaccine development to stop a novel coronavirus emerging from China, but it will be months before it can be administered safely to an anxious public. While promising, vaccine development and testing is a time-consuming process, both to ensure that it works and that it is safe in humans.