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An estimated 50 million Americans some of them your patients live with chronic pain caused by disease, disorder, or accident, according to the American Academy of Pain Management.
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A multidisciplinary pain management program with a strong case management focus helps members of Kaiser Permanente with moderate to severe levels of pain receive effective care and avoid using treatments that don't work.
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After being enrolled in MVP Health Care's back care program for a year, the percentage of participants reporting that their back pain did not interfere with their work increased from 10.9% to 22.9%.
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One of the most challenging issues for quality managers is demonstrating that best QI practices can actually improve outcomes. Demonstrating such success requires a good deal of time and resources. In light of this challenge, the results of a new study published in JAMA should be good news, indeed.
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Although there are signs of improvement in some conditions, differences in the quality of health care provided to men and women continue to persist, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHQ).
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When an employee at your facility reports back after an injury or illness with a physician's order for "light duty" in hand, is the prescription a guide to what the employee can do, what he or she can't do, or a chance to look at the employee's ability to contribute in a new way?
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The numbers are in and they aren't good. Data presented recently in Baltimore at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America document an inexorable increase in staph infections in the nation's hospitals.
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A combination of telephonic case management and home visits has helped Optima Health decrease preterm births and low-birth-weight infants.
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Patient education must be promoted so clinicians will understand how to effectively teach patients and use the resources available to them to do a good job. Yet without support from leadership, patient education initiatives often falter.
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A "discharge by appointment" initiative at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Towson, MD, has had some success, but is being challenged by physician delays and families who aren't arriving on time.
