Hospice Management Advisor Archives – July 1, 2005
July 1, 2005
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Palliative care and hospice pain experts provide best practice care guidelines
Hospices may be the leaders in pain management, but most could improve their efforts by following best practice guidelines and initiating a quality improvement process, several pain experts say. -
Pain management project includes hospital pathway
A quality improvement team that focused on ways clinicians could better manage patients’ pain developed a one-page clinical pathway that clearly shows what needs to be done. -
Making pain management education top priority
The Hospice of the Western Reserve of Cleveland makes pain management education a top priority, and the efforts have resulted in faster and more effective pain control for patients, officials say. -
Use the four-box method to enhance decision making
Whether or not hospices have an ethics committee, it is a good idea to review and improve policies regarding ethical decision making, an expert says. -
Don’t be fooled by the illusion of patient safety
As a part of their overall patient safety program, many health care organizations require that managers submit corrective action reports for every significant incident in their department. -
Aspirin prevents strokes in middle-aged women
Results from a new major study show middle-aged women who take aspirin lowered their risk of having a stroke, but their risk of myocardial infarction or death from cardiovascular causes was not affected.