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A team approach to hospice care helps members of the interdisciplinary team provide support for patients and each other at HealthEast Hospice Care, based at St. Josephs Hospital in St. Paul, MN. The hospital is part of the HealthEast Care System, also in St. Paul.
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After an exhaustive process that involved collecting more than 150 ways to define case management and testing them in the field, the Case Management Leadership Coalition has come up with a way that case managers can tell consumers what they do.
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The wound care center at Presbyterian Hospital of Plano (TX) takes a holistic approach to patient care by assigning each patient to one nurse who provides hands-on care and case management.
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To comply with the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations new National Patient Safety Goal to reduce the risk of patient harm resulting from falls, your organization must assess and periodically re-assess each patients risk of falling including the potential risk associated with the patients medication regimen and take action to address any identified risks.
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Everyone wants a good outcome from case management services, but not everyone knows what the result should be or how to measure it.
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After the voluntary withdrawal of Vioxx from the market in September 2004 following reports of increased cardiovascular events associated with the drug, there was a call from some quarters for a similar action for all selective COX-2 inhibitors (coxibs). This article reviews the current clinical knowledge regarding the coxibs and their cardiovascular effects. Recommendations for prescribing anti-inflammatory drugs in common clinical situations are provided.
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The possibility of a bird flu pandemic has health officials worldwide in a high state of alert.
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