Articles Tagged With: resources
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Attorneys Will Scrutinize ED Preparedness for Pediatric Emergencies
Litigation will center on training, experience, and facility resources.
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Under-Resourced Public Health Leaves Healthcare Vulnerable
Allison McGeer, MD, an infectious disease specialist in the Sinai Health System and a professor at the University of Toronto, was on the front lines when SARS-1 hit the city in 2003. Hospital Infection Control & Prevention asked her about emerging infections and other issues in this interview.
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EPs Find Ways to Mitigate Emotional Toll of Malpractice Litigation
Emergency physicians who find themselves defendants do have resources — at their hospitals, from their professional liability carriers, from mental health professionals, and from specialty organizations. -
Surge of HIV Patients Present to EDs, Leaders Call for Expanded Screening
Investigators discovered a more than twofold increase in cases of acute HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of an ED-based screening program at UChicago Medicine. The cause of the increase remains unknown, but it underscores the importance of screening despite the fact the pandemic has strained all resources.
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Colleges Turn to Case Management in Response to Gun Violence
Some colleges created case management positions to help troubled students in the years following the 2007 Virginia Tech gun massacre. Case managers help students with crises, emergencies, and medical and behavioral health problems.
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The Basic Elements of Healthcare Reimbursement — Part 1
Changes in healthcare reimbursement have occurred with lightning speed over the last two decades. Providers billed for services rendered and were reimbursed — with no checks, balances, or control over costs of care. Case management, as a care delivery model, followed a similar course. But as reimbursement changed, so did case management. This month we will begin our discussion of reimbursement, including the changes to case management as it evolved with reimbursement.
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Healthcare Workers Holding the Line Against Pandemic
Many have died and more have been sickened, but the nation’s healthcare workers are grimly holding the line against the worst pandemic in a century. Those who survive may pay a mental health price, a “moral injury” not unlike soldiers returning from war, mental health experts warn.
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Long-Term Care IPs Are ‘Heroes’ of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Infection preventionists are the heroes of the pandemic, dealing with a profound crisis without proper training and resources, said experts in infection prevention and epidemiology during a recent “5 Second Rule” podcast from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
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Research Group Increased Minority Participation by 533%
One barrier to enrolling minorities in research involves resources. For some studies, such as pediatric oncology clinical trials, there might not be enough resources to enroll one or two patients at a single site.
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Leaders Under Pressure Can Learn Decision-Making Tactics
Leaders working in case management are under unforgiving time limits, pressures, and resource constraints that make decision-making difficult. The challenge relates to the way healthcare is moving and the speed with which change is occurring within organizations as they continue to change, form partnerships, and other issues.