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In the first two years of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina's fibromyalgia management program, the inpatient admission rate among members enrolled in the program decreased by 23.3%, emergency department visits dropped by 23.1%, and physician visits went down 16.6%.
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With the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) emphasizing the reduction of hospital readmissions as one way to cut the overall cost of health care for Medicare patients, home health agency managers have evaluated different ways to improve this outcome for their agencies.
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Navigating the health care system often is bewildering for people who were born in the United States and speak English; it may be incomprehensible for some of this country's growing immigrant population, who bring their own cultural beliefs and practices with them.
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A range of factors affects a patient's ability to manage oral medications: cognitive ability, number of medications, and understanding why and how to take medications. To help patients better manage their medications, it is important to identify the reasons they don't and address those in the simplest manner possible.
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Budget-conscious quality managers might want to take a good, hard look at the findings in the latest report from the Dartmouth Atlas Project, in Hanover, NH. It indicates that providing chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries more care at a higher cost does not translate into higher quality care.
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The first step to improving your IRB office's efficiency is to collect data through a software system that will make sense of files and reports.
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As times change and evolve, so do IRBs and, ultimately, IRB guidelines and rules. Lately, the evolution of IRBs can be seen in the trend of an increasing number of multi-site studies.
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Want to attract and retain good nonscientific, unaffiliated IRB members? Cast your net wider for interested people, train them well and nurture them carefully.
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IRB Advisor: What are some the latest issues and things discussed and decided by SACHRP?
