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Beta-Blockers and Case Management Help Reduce Readmissions of Heart Failure Patients
Ninety-day mortality and readmission rates are significantly lower for older patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction when they receive a beta-blocker after hospitalization. Case managers also can reinforce the provider’s information about common medication side effects and what issues and changes they should look for. -
Case Management Depending More on Advanced Practice Nurses
Advanced practice nurses (APNs) are becoming case managers as part of a trend fueled by the growth of managed care. APNs helping with care coordination can contribute to improved quality of care and communication at discharge and reduce readmissions. -
Hospitals in States Without Medicaid Expansion Face Discharge Challenges
States that have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act reported fewer hospitalizations for uninsured acute ischemic stroke patients than states that did not expand Medicaid. -
Simple Techniques for Talking with Patients About Advance Directives
It is challenging for case managers and healthcare providers to discuss end-of-life issues with patients, particularly when they are facing a life-threatening injury or illness. But it is useful to make advance directives a part of a palliative care service as well as a general part of case management with geriatric patients after a traumatic injury. -
Geriatric Program Develops Tactics to Improve Care for Older Patients
With the goal of continuous quality improvement, a health system created programs and tools to provide care for older patients that focuses on advance care planning, cognitive decline, and how to ensure safe transitions. The goal is interprofessional geriatric care and providing good care to complex, hospitalized older adult patients. -
Regulators Sign Off on COVID-19 Vaccine ‘Mix and Match’
Federal agencies expand, clarify guidance on booster shots.
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Geriatric Patients Need Advance Directives and Transdisciplinary Care Across Continuum
Millions of older Americans visit emergency departments each year, often for traumatic injuries, including falls that can lead to death. Case managers and health systems should consider how to improve end-of-life care discussions and advance directive documentation in this population. -
Medicaid Expansion Helped Young Adults with Traumatic Injuries
Better insurance coverage led to wider access to rehab resources, chipped away at certain racial, socioeconomic disparities.
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Study: Interferon Does Not Help Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients
When combined with remdesivir, the multiple sclerosis drug did not produce clinical benefit.
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U.S. Advocacy Groups Declare National Emergency on Children’s Mental Health
Health professionals call on policymakers to address regulatory, financial, and technological challenges.