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When an IRB considers a proposed study, the devil is in the details: Exactly what are you studying? Exactly how? Who will participate? When? For how long?
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When IRBs encounter ethnography proposals, their concerns--and requests for change--tend to fall into a few key areas.
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Hospital case managers are in a unique position to help their hospitals find solutions to the ever-increasing problem of overcrowded emergency departments (EDs) ...
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Kettering Medical Center has found a solution to the challenges case managers face when they have to manage the daily care of patients, plan for discharge, work with insurance companies, and ensure that the hospital is meeting its targets for quality initiatives.
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If you want to recruit qualified case managers and retain the ones you have, you have to create the kind of environment in which caring nurses want to work.
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National Case Management Week, Oct. 8-14, 2006, is a great opportunity to make sure that the case managers on your staff feel appreciated and that their contributions are recognized by the entire hospital.
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Coordinating care for complex patients is knowledge work that often requires deep concentration. And deep concentration requires periods of uninterrupted time.
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Do you identify patients at risk for suicide? Do you give patients a list of their medications? And do you encourage patients to report safety risks?
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Before Mease (FL) Dunedin Hospital began a Six Sigma project to improve patient discharge, only 45% of patients whose discharge orders were issued by noon were being discharged by 1 p.m.
