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A study published in the Dec. 21, 2004, Annals of Internal Medicine showed that patients enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs health system (VHA) were more likely than a national sample of similar patients in the general population to receive preventive care and chronic care recommended by established national guidelines.
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New Jersey hospital wins Baldrige award; AHRQ releases new diabetes care guide.
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Case managers rarely are involved in adverse patient incidents, yet they can learn a lot about discharge planning failures by applying accident investigation tools. Accident investigation techniques can be helpful for evaluating why discharge planning didnt go as expected.
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A study conducted by Saeed Syed, MD, a hospitalist physician with Cogent Healthcare, a provider of inpatient management programs, compared results between patients treated by voluntary attending physicians and those treated by the hospitalist/clinical pharmacist team. The hospitalist/clinical pharmacist group had a 23% shorter length of stay, a 21% lower cost of medications, and 1.5 fewer medications per patient than the comparable patient group treated by the voluntary attending model.
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When Stamford (CT) Hospital began its pneumococcal vaccination screening, only about 16% of patients were being screened. In less than a year, the rate had risen to 76%, outpacing statistics from other hospitals in Connecticut.
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As daily workplace demands rise, overtaxed leaders often target other decision makers the CEO, a head nurse, technician, or doctor as the source, says a psychologist who is a conflict resolution consultant and president of TheraRising.com in Minnesota.
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Arguments, nasty comments, and demeaning behavior what health care professional cant tell stories of how some co-worker or colleague made life miserable for people just trying to do their jobs? Disruptive behavior is all too common in health care, but now experts are warning that the harmful effects fall on more than just the health care professionals.
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Risk managers must act on disruptive behavior, says the vice president and medical director at VHA in Irving, TX.
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Twenty patients died in Minnesota hospitals over 15 months from medical errors or oversights, according to a new report released recently by the state health department.
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Question: What is our obligation under EMTALA when a patient leaves the emergency department after screening but before treatment is complete?
