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Anesthesia Input Crucial to Quality Improvement
Anesthesiologists significantly affect several important measurements in a surgery center’s quality improvement program, including dizziness, falls, and burns.
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Proposed OPPS ASC Rule Could Mean New Procedures for Surgery Centers
Professional organizations express mixture of opinions on upcoming changes.
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Nurses Play Vital Role in Evolving Surgery Center Culture
A few examples of how nurses and their organizations can shift to patient-centered operations.
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Malignant Hyperthermia: Causes, Alternative Diagnoses, and Treatment Techniques
A closer examination of what happens during malignant hyperthermia.
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Precautions in Surgery Centers Can Save Patients With Malignant Hyperthermia
Malignant hyperthermia is a rare and sometimes deadly disease that is difficult to diagnose and treat unless surgery centers have undergone proper training and prepared the right way.
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Ethical Issues and Standards in Case Management, Part 1
This month, we will discuss principles related to ethics and how they affect one’s role as an RN case manager or a social worker. These principles include patient advocacy, which applies to all the roles and functions that case managers perform.
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Intensive Inpatient Rehabilitation: Optimal Path for Stroke Patients
After acute care, a stroke patient’s discharge plan should include an inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) when they meet specific medical criteria, according to the 2016 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association guidelines. Stroke also tops the CMS 13 list, which designates 13 medical conditions that 60% of an IRF’s patients must have for the IRF to qualify. IRFs provide hospital-level care to stroke patients who need intensive, interdisciplinary rehabilitation care provided under the direct supervision of a physician.
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Children With Chronic Illness: When Compliance Is Complicated
Children living with chronic illness often struggle with their treatment regimen. Depression and anxiety may be involved, as the child likely cannot cope. But that is just one component of the noncompliance picture. Psychological and medical trauma, as well as family issues, may be involved.
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Case Studies Offer Clues to How Team Case Management Model Worked
West Virginia University's team case management approach to diabetes management has led to positive outcomes with patients.
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Program Targeting Patients With Diabetes Reaches A1c Goals
West Virginia University's diabetes care program helped patients lower their A1c levels from an average of 10.25 to an average of 8.7 within three to six months. Even at 18-month follow-ups, 86% of patients recorded lower A1c levels than they did in the beginning, and one-third of patients registered A1c levels below 8. The team-based diabetes care program started as a quality improvement initiative.