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The federal Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) is seeking public comment through May 24 on recommendations regarding the use of human subjects protection procedures of foreign countries in overseas research.
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Using a comprehensive approach to care management called Next Generation Care Management, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has cut both the number of catastrophic case managers and the average caseload while increasing the savings per catastrophic case by 300%.
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Though research and anecdotal evidence seem to show that integrating disability and health care programs for all injuries and illnesses whether suffered on the job or off can get employees back to work more quickly, prevent absences, and lower total benefit costs, most employers are slow to warm up to the idea.
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The University of Washington (UW) School of Public Health and Community Medicine in Seattle has received a two-year, $656,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to evaluate the impact of Group Health Cooperatives recent innovations to improve access and quality of care for its members.
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After an exhaustive process that involved collecting and evaluating more than 150 separate definitions of case management, the Case Management Leadership Coalition (CMLC) has come up with a statement designed to help case managers explain what they do.
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While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduces new programs designed to address the care of chronically ill patients, home health agencies continue to find innovative ways to provide care to diabetic and congestive heart failure (CHF) patients two of the most common diagnoses identified as chronic illnesses.
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The National Quality Forum (NQF) has published a new set of national consensus standards, National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Cardiac Surgery, which provides a standardized set of measures and framework for improving the quality of cardiac surgery (which accounts for about 14,000 in-hospital deaths each year).
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The physician who first described the persistent vegetative state (PVS) watched in deep dismay at the struggle over the fate of perhaps the most famous PVS patient, Terri Schiavo.
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Some conflicts among families of terminally ill patients or patients in vegetative states cannot be resolved, says an expert in doctor-patient communications, but much can be done before the conflict rises to the level of that in the family of Terri Schiavo.
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Patients who are noncompliant, unpleasant, or troublesome give physicians frequent opportunities to consider terminating their physician-patient relationships.
