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Crowded EDs leaving proven strategies for improving patient flow on the table
Despite the fact that ED crowding is associated with a range of concerning outcomes, including higher mortality rates, higher rates of complications, and increased errors, there is new evidence many EDs are leaving proven strategies for improvement in this area on the table.
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“Warm handoffs” can reduce hospitals’ readmission rates
Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, MA, improved its readmission rates through a quality improvement process that included measurements of “warm handoff” rates.
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Case managers need to connect across continuum
Case managers working together across the care continuum can improve the problem of healthcare silos.
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Try some new strategies for motivating clients
Case managers can improve client motivation through strategies that include learning what is important to them and breaking up their overall goal into bite-sized steps.
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A glimpse inside the incubator: Creating new CM outcomes tool
Case management work increasingly is being measured, but the big issue is finding tools for effective measurement of CM outcomes.
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Nursing leader: Nurse-to-nurse hostility may go back to ancient competition for men
In a gender-loaded assessment that might be labeled sexist if stated by a man, a female nursing leader says the field’s “bullying” culture may have its roots in the ancient competition among women for male mates.
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IPs must be involved in construction at the onset
New construction and renovation in hospitals and other healthcare settings can pose an infectious threat to patients via dust and contaminated water, but infection preventionists may not be called into a project until its final stages.
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APIC: Proposed changes to human research rule could have unintended consequences
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology warns that proposed revisions to the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects – the “Common Rule” – may have unintended consequences if infection prevention research is not excluded from approval by IRBs.
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HCV infections in Utah hospitals linked to drug diverter
Two Utah hospitals have notified thousands of patients that they may have been exposed to hepatitis C virus linked to an infected nurse with a history of drug diversion.
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Ebola survivors suffer lingering symptoms
U.S. healthcare workers who survived Ebola after acquiring it from patients have suffered a wide variety of symptoms and maladies, with only one survivor considered symptom-free at five months after discharge, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.