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Health Plan of Nevada Inc. takes a multi-pronged approach to managing the care and services of its chronically ill members throughout the continuum of care.
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Early intervention is important for children with autism. To make sure this early diagnosis occurs, every pregnant woman should be given a chart on childhood development so she knows what is considered typical behavior.
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Mistakes involving patient classification and preauthorization of procedures are among a lengthy list of common errors made in the same-day surgery arena, says Bob Whipple, RNC, CCM, CCS, MHA, a Boston-based senior management consultant with ACS Healthcare Solutions, who specializes in all areas of the revenue cycle.
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Blogger beware some on-line medical diarists have found the benefits of sharing experiences and observations via their web logs ("blogs") can come at a cost.
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While most doctors might feel good about the idea of disclosing medical errors to patients, a University of Iowa researcher says fewer than half of the physicians and medical students his team surveyed actually have disclosed real medical errors.
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Researchers at a large children's hospital found that nurses who were comfortable working with dying children and their families were also nurses who reported high levels of hopefulness.
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The public health threat posed by Andrew Speaker, the Georgia lawyer who traveled to Europe and back as he learned that he not only had tuberculosis, but an extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), warranted the first federally ordered quarantine in 44 years.
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Physicians say they sometimes struggle to strike a balance in their doctor-patient relationships not too personal, not too aloof.
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Are residents in training who moonlight in emergency departments (EDs) more likely to experience clinical errors and oversights? The answer is a definite yes, say experts, and to allow them to practice unsupervised is unethical, they add.
