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Many factors keep people from putting into practice what they have learned about diabetes. One frequent factor is that people do not make diabetes management a priority, says Teresa Benge, RN, CDE, CPT, a diabetes educator at Fairview Diabetes Care in Wyoming, MN.
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New research suggests that universal intimate partner violence (IPV) screening in health care settings does not result in significant changes in subsequent reports of IPV or quality of life, according to a study in the Aug. 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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A unique partnership between a health plan and a physician practice is helping patients with diabetes get the care and resources they need to manage their disease.
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National Case Management Week, Oct. 11-17, is the perfect opportunity for case managers in all settings to educate their co-workers, the public, and politicians about the value of case management. But don't stop there.
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If you had to name something that costs American businesses an estimated $4.1 billion a year in direct medical and mental health care services, would you think of intimate partner violence?
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To minimize damage from RAC audits, risk managers should make sure their facilities have highly competent case managers available seven days per week, advises Bill Hammock, RN, BSN, CMC, ACM, vice president and senior consultant in the Global Clinical Health Care Consulting Practice of Marsh in Nashville, TN.
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The philosophy behind the RAC program at Palomar Pomerado Health (PPH), based in Escondido, CA, is that it is better to find problems yourself before an auditor finds them for you.
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Good intentions can backfire when it comes to preparing for RAC audits, cautions Rebekah Plowman, JD, an attorney specializing in health care litigation with the law firm of Epstein Becker in Atlanta.
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Tube-feeding misconnections fall into the category of medical errors that are so obviously wrong that clinicians think they could never make such a mistake. But feeding tube errors do happen, and they sometimes bring grave consequences.
