Articles Tagged With: discharge
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Patients’ Goals During Long-Term Acute Care Hospital Stays
After a long-term acute care hospital stay, most patients will achieve goals of ventilator liberation, eating, drinking, and speaking, but many will not achieve independence in walking, grooming, toileting, or returning home.
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Abnormal Vitals Linked to Unanticipated Death After ED Discharge
More than half of 129 patients who died unexpectedly after they were discharged from EDs exhibited abnormal vital signs at the time. Each patient had presented to an urban academic ED between 2014 and 2017, and died within seven days after they went home. -
Abnormal Vitals Linked to Unanticipated Death After ED Discharge
Repeating vital signs before discharge is key to averting disaster.
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EDs See More High-Risk Patients with Ventricular Assist Devices
To reduce risks for patients with ventricular assist devices, providers should learn how they work, what complications need to be evaluated, and how to do so. Ensure systems are put in place for providers to care for these patients in an expeditious and effective way.
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Care Transitions Clinic Reduces Hospitalizations, ED Visits
The results of a recent study revealed a care transitions clinic can reduce emergency department discharge time and increase the clinic’s rate of successful transition to community primary care. Intervening within 72 hours of discharge is important for patient engagement and facilitating education about their health and care management. -
Test Ordering Mistakes Are Issue in Most Diagnosis-Related ED Malpractice Claims
Team training — on communication skills, monitoring patients, and sharing information while the patient still is in the ED — can ensure the correct tests are ordered and acted on. -
Ways Case Managers Can Improve Disaster Planning
Effective disaster planning requires improved annual preparedness training, better focus on patient transition, more emphasis on rehabilitation after discharge, strengthened teams, and transitions of care contingencies.
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COVID-19 Pandemic Put Pioneering Capacity Command Center to the Test
No knew the world would be in the grips of COVID-19 in 2016. That is when Johns Hopkins Hospital unveiled a first-of-its-kind Capacity Command Center (CCC), a high-tech control room designed to apply all the latest analytical tools to bed management, patient transfers, and surge planning. CCC leaders have spent the last five years working around the clock to optimize patient flow and anticipate any potential bottlenecks. But there is no question the concept has been put to the test by pandemic conditions. How did it fare?
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Ethical Responses Needed if Clinicians Say Discharge Is Unsafe
For some patients, there are no caregivers at home. Others may be living in unsafe conditions. Ethicists can help by brainstorming scenarios, and trying to connect resources accordingly.
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Accommodating Expanded ASC Orthopedic, Spine Procedures
Some patients will need pain control and monitoring beyond the 23 hours, 59 minutes recovery window CMS allows in an ambulatory surgery center. While there are no uniform solutions that solve all problems for everyone, there are some options that can help.