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The pharmacy at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, fills about 75% of the prescriptions that patients are given at discharge.
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Having pharmacists on the multidisciplinary team can help ensure that patients progress well in the hospital and that they follow their medication plan at home and avoid emergency department visits or readmissions.
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At The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, pharmacists are part of a multidisciplinary team and see many patients in person starting on Day 1.
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When hospitals determine after discharge that a patient did not meet inpatient criteria, they can file a provider liable claim using Condition Code W2 and be reimbursed for all services as if the patient were an outpatient, according to Deborah Hale, CCS, CCDS.
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Mountain State Health Alliance opened a free heart failure clinic after determining that patients' inability to get a timely follow-up appointment and financial issues were the cause of many readmissions.
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Case managers are working long hours and most get only cost-of-living raises.
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Subjects with Lesch-Nyhan disease and Lesch-Nyhan variant have significant reductions in brain size in the basal ganglia as well as several cortical areas.
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An outbreak of fungal meningitis and paraspinal infections occurred over the past year due to contaminated methylprednisolone injections.
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Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis has now been well characterized clinically, physiologically, and genetically.
