Articles Tagged With: adherence
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Hospital-at-Home Primary Care and Case Management Team Helps with Challenging Cases
As any case manager knows, preventing readmissions and ED visits by the most at-risk patients is an enormous challenge. It requires addressing all the social determinants of health needs they may have, as well as finding creative and affordable solutions.
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Importance of Medication Adherence in Ischemic Heart Disease
The results of a subanalysis of the ISCHEMIA trial indicated about one-quarter of patients in both conservative and invasive strategy groups were nonadherent to recommended medical therapy at baseline. Nonadherence was associated with worse health status in both groups at baseline and after one year.
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New Studies Suggest Benefits of Remote Patient Monitoring
Remote monitoring of patients with chronic disease can be cost-effective, improve adherence to therapies, improve care, and help alleviate symptoms, a collection of new studies shows.
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How One Health System Monitors COVID-19 Patients at Home
One large health system successfully employed a hospital at home program during the COVID-19 pandemic using remote technology and a multidisciplinary team. By the end of 2021, the program had built a strong central team to support 13 medical centers across California. -
First Injectable Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Receives FDA Approval
Researchers hope this long-acting solution every will boost PrEP adherence rates among those at risk for contracting HIV.
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Study: Young Cisgender Women Are Less Adherent to PrEP
New research on the proportion of adolescents and young adults who are adherent to pre-exposure prophylaxis revealed that young cisgender women have a lower adherence rate than young men who have sex with men and serodiscordant heterosexual couples. -
Policies Support Clinicians if Asked to Provide Inappropriate Care
When a family demands possibly inappropriate life-sustaining interventions, clinicians often turn to hospital policies for guidance. The authors of a recent study examined the effectiveness of Yale New Haven Hospital’s Conscientious Practice Policy. A theme emerged, focused on the inconsistent use of the policy. Whether it was used depended mostly on how resistant the family was to limiting interventions.
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Pandemic Fatigue Is Real, but Is Public Masking Improving?
As SARS-CoV-2 variant strains emerge and vaccine supplies remain uncertain, the need to mask, social distance, and use other nonpharmaceutical interventions is critical. Researchers found that masking increased from 39% to 89% from April to November 2020.
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Researchers Study the Effects of Intensive Primary Care
A case management-type of model, called primary care intensive management, could provide some limited benefits for more complex patients, research shows. But the research also suggests questions about how population health resources are best spent.
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CMSA Launches New Guidelines for Case Management Adherence
The Case Management Society of America is releasing its 2020 Case Management Adherence Guidelines to provide case managers with tactics for improving population health. The guidelines are designed to assist case managers and case management leaders in all practice settings.