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Local Solutions Spark Readmission Reductions
August 29, 2012
Pass the "coaching baton" across care settings, care transition program co-chair says
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Prevention of Intravascular, Catheter-Related Infections
- Jeffrey M. Rohde, MD;
- Sarah E. Hartley, MD
August 29, 2012
Each year in the ICU alone, 80,000 catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs) occur.
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Is ‘Meaningful Use’ Safe?
- Christopher Guadagnino, PhD
August 29, 2012
Despite CMS praise, clinicians are wary of health IT shortcomings
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Opinion
Win Whitcomb: Inflexible, Big-Box EHRs Endanger the QI Movement
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
August 29, 2012
The challenges current EHRs present to QI efforts and what features EHRs need to incorporate to better serve the needs of patients and clinicians
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Teach Back Communication Strategy Helps Healthcare Providers Help Their Patients
August 29, 2012
Teach back is a strategy in which providers ask patients to repeat, in their own words, what they have just learned about their medical condition, treatments, and self-care
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Shaun Frost: High-Value Healthcare
August 29, 2012
Applying accountability principles to improve our care-delivery system
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Enhanced Provider-Patient Communication Improves Discharge Process
August 28, 2012
Teach-back can help effectively communicate the key teaching points hospitalized patients and their caregivers should take home
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Study: Collaborative Approach to Med Rec Effective, Cost-Efficient
August 7, 2012
Adverse-drug-event prevention is a “team game,” says researcher
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Workforce Shortages, Increased Patient Populations, and Funding Woes Pressure U.S. Primary-Care System
July 31, 2012
The primary-care workforce has been on a downward slide that is sounding alarm bells throughout the country.
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Most Adverse Events at Hospitals Still Go Unreported
July 31, 2012
Hospitalists can help by fixing broken systems, creating safe-to-report work environments.