Articles Tagged With: EMR
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Communication Tools Can Prevent Medication Errors After Discharge
A discharge medication communication bundle can help prevent liquid medication errors when caregivers treat children at home after hospital discharge, new research shows. The communication bundle resulted in fewer caregivers making medication errors when compared with a group receiving standard care.
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Reduce Patient Safety Risks for ED Super-Utilizers
Extreme ED super-utilizers pose significant risks and challenges for ED providers. Providers are at risk for missing signs of a serious condition because they have seen the patient in the ED so many times for the same complaint — whether back pain, headache, or abdominal pain.
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Ongoing Education, Outcomes-Focused Reviews Remain Key to Lasting Gains in Triage Accuracy
A recent investigation into the accuracy of ED triage decisions when using the most common triage system — the Emergency Severity Index — revealed that mistriage occurs in roughly one-third of patient encounters.
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Using AI in Case Management
Touted as a way to save money and time, enable more accurate diagnoses, and streamline processes, AI can be a helpful tool in hospitals. The accessibility of high volumes of information can help with decision-making and care coordination.
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Standardized Process for SNF Transitions Helps Prevent Readmissions
Using Lean methodology, Monument Health in Rapid City, SD, created a care transition process that reduces excess hospital days, prevents readmissions, and shortens the time it takes from discharge order to the patient leaving the hospital.
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Avoid Common Mistakes in Malpractice Cases
Handling an allegation of medical malpractice is never easy, but the experience and eventual outcome can be greatly improved by avoiding some of the most common mistakes. One of the biggest mistakes is altering a record after the fact.
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Physicians Can Suffer Moral Injury if Oath to Patients Is Broken
Long before the pandemic, physicians were suffering from “moral injury” — a violation of one’s values, ethical code, or sworn duty — because too often they had to choose between their patients and the profits and performance measures of corporate medicine, claims the author of a new book.
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Primary Care Is on Life Support, But Case Management Could Be Antidote
Primary care is facing decline due to financial factors and clinician burnout. One solution is to assign case managers or care coordinators to primary care offices to improve communication between primary care providers, hospitals, and other healthcare entities.
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New Checklist Offers Roadmap for Improved Diagnostic Performance
Emergency clinicians spend much time making diagnoses, but knowing they are right is another matter. The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine reports missed or delayed diagnoses are a major public health problem, leading to higher costs, malpractice claims, and potentially adverse outcomes for patients.
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An ED-Friendly Screening Tool to Identify Potentially Violent Patients
Considering violence is a continuing concern in the emergency setting, there is high interest in new mechanisms that can identify potentially violent patients at the front end of their care encounters. This way, safeguards or preventive measures can be activated to keep providers and other patients safe. However, any such tool needs to be brief and easily integrated into the workflow of a busy ED.