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Managed Care October 2002 Pamela L. Popp	How To -- And Not To -- Disclose Medical Errors to Patients Health care facilities and physician practices must commence development and implementation of a disclosure policy. The policy should include a statement of the need and willingness of the patient and physician to have an open and honest relationship and a constant dialogue.
Managed Care April 2001 Charles Downey	EDTUs: Last Line of Defense Against Costly Inpatient Stays Many hospitals already have some variety of emergency diagnostic and treatment units. HMOs and physicians should welcome this level of care...
American Journal of Nursing September 2011 Schmid et al.	Care of the Suicidal Pediatric Patient in the ED: A Case Study At Childrens Hospital Boston, an algorithm-the Risk of Suicidality Clinical Practice Algorithm has been developed to ensure evidence-based care supported by best practice guidelines.
American Journal of Nursing January 2008 Maslow & Mezey	Recognition of Dementia in Hospitalized Older Adults Recognition of Dementia in Hospitalized Older Adults proposes several approaches that hospital nurses can use to increase recognition of dementia. This article describes the Try This approaches, how to implement them, and how to incorporate them into a hospital's current admission procedures.
Managed Care June 2006 Twanmoh & Cunningham	When Overcrowding Paralyzes an Emergency Department Changing the process and mindset of health care professionals was the key to reducing emergency department overcrowding.
Nursing Management March 2010 Becker & Schmidtke	All along the watchtower: Suicide risk screening, a pilot study Patients will continue to die if healthcare organizations don't take action and appropriately assess patients at risk for suicide in general hospitals.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2009 Andrew Dick	Deal Diagnosis Healthcare real estate transactions not only are driven by economic factors, but also by compliance with federal and state healthcare laws.
Nursing July 2009 Penny S. Brooke	Legally speaking...When can you say NO? As a nurse, accepting responsibilities that are beyond the scope of your license or skill level can have serious consequences for you, your patients, and your nursing career.
Nursing Management June 2010 Alison Trembly	Stroke care in the 21st century Stroke care has changed dramatically in the last decade. This story emphasizes several key points about stroke in the 21st century.
Nursing Management July 2011 Lisa Greenlund	ED violence: Occupational hazard? Workplace violence is an occupational hazard for hospital staff providing psychiatric care in hospital EDs.
American Journal of Nursing October 2008	How to Try This: Working with Families of Hospitalized Older Adults with Dementia Families provide a considerable amount of informal care and support for older adults living with dementia. And when an older adult with dementia is hospitalized, family caregivers should be seen as important sources of information and included as valuable members of the health care team.
Managed Care July 2007 Martin Sipkoff	Hospitals Asked To Account For Errors on Their Watch Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and states may stop paying for specific hospital-acquired conditions. Will health plans follow suit?
Searcher Jul/Aug 2010 Tara Breton	What's in the Patient's Medical Bill? If you want more understanding of medical billing, here are the basics of the U.S. medical reimbursement system that will hopefully assist you along with web resources on this subject.
Job Journal November 2, 2008 Julia Hollister	Hospital Jobs The hospital is one workplace where the decisions really are life and death.
American Journal of Nursing March 2009 Nelson et al.	Recognizing Sepsis in the Adult Patient Patients in every health care setting are at risk for systemic inflammatory response syndrome, sepsis, severe sepsis, and even septic shock.
American Family Physician July 15, 2001 Marc Tunzi	Can the Patient Decide? Evaluating Patient Capacity in Practice
BusinessWeek November 20, 2008	Financial Triage Innovative ways that hospitals are looking at patient finances.
Managed Care February 2006 Sharon Baker	Hospitalists No Longer Novel Increased emphasis on improving quality and patient safety in hospitals, growing pressures to reduce costs, and new limits on residency work hours have all led to an explosion in the number of physicians who work solely in hospitals.
Nursing Management April 2009 Sharon H. Pappas	Profits, Payers, and Patients: Responding to Changes Profit is necessary for hospitals to fulfill their missions, invest in expansion and new technologies, and reinvest in existing patient care infrastructures. Profitability is the work of the financial team and the clinical team to produce the hospital's desired financial outcome.
American Family Physician June 15, 2002 Kathy Soch	Diary from a Week in Practice Asking teenaged patients about sensitive subjects... A resident takes charge of a patient with queit confidence and skill... Never a more important house call... etc.
Managed Care February 2005 Tony Berberabe	Information: It's Better When You Share Today's version of a community health information network, the regional health information organization, is a collaborative of health plans, health care providers, and hospitals in a given geographic area that collects patient information stored on a secure Web site.
American Journal of Nursing October 2008	Wandering in Hospitalized Older Adults: Identifying Risk is the First Step in This Approach to Preventing Wandering in Patients with Dementia. People who have dementia are at risk for wandering away from the safety of the care setting and becoming lost in the community. Here are three critical elements of prevention and action.
Science News March 28, 2009	Science Past For March 28, 1959 Thoughts on patient resocialization in a mental hospital during the 1950s.
American Journal of Nursing May 2011 Pusateri et al.	Original Research: The Role of the Non-ICU Staff Nurse on a Medical Emergency Team: Perceptions and Understanding We sought to determine the nursing staff's familiarity with and perceptions of the Medical Emergency Team at one hospital.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney	Saving Lives Shouldn't Be This Hard The health-care system doesn't give patients the tools or the support they need to make confident decisions about choosing doctors, treatments, or hospitals.
American Journal of Nursing January 2010	Life-Support Interventions at the End of Life: Unintended Consequences Nurses need to be knowledgeable life-support interventions at the end of life and able to communicate what they know about those consequences to patients, family members, and others on the health care team, leading to better decision making at this difficult time.
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American Family Physician October 1, 2006 Kavan et al.	A Practical Guide to Crisis Management Physicians often are required to assist patients in crisis. An estimated 4% of visits to primary care physicians involve psychiatric or social crises.
InternetNews June 3, 2010	UofL Web Site Exposes Patients' Personal Info A doctor at the University of Louisville Hospital set up an internal Web site and data base to track and monitor kidney dialysis patients. The problem is the site wasn't password protected.
Managed Care December 2004 Adler & Schukman	The Role of Managed Care In Patient Safety & Error Reduction Patient safety and medical errors have become the focus of increasing attention from the public, policymakers, and accreditation agencies. Managed care organizations clearly are important stakeholders in this issue.
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IDB America September 2004 Daniel Drosdoff	A Smarter Use of Healthcare Dollars Trinidad restructures its health system in order to improve quality and make better use of facilities.
American Family Physician November 15, 2005 Haas et al.	Management of the Difficult Patient All physicians must care for some patients who are perceived as difficult because of behavioral or emotional aspects that affect their care. Specific communication techniques and greater patient involvement in the process of care may enhance the relationship.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2006	Alternative Media: Time to Change the Channel Upgraded hospital television and Internet systems equal new marketing opportunities.
HBS Working Knowledge June 5, 2006 Porter & Olmsted Teisberg	Using Competition to Reform Healthcare The new book Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, takes a systemic approach to healthcare reform.
American Journal of Nursing September 2011 Adams & Tolich	Original Research: Blood Transfusion: The Patient's Experience This study therefore sought to identify how well patients understand the role of blood transfusion in their treatment and whether it causes them discomfort.
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Managed Care October 2007 Frank Diamond	Proceduralists Seem Up To the Task Proceduralists might help to keep hospital costs down and prevent some hospital-acquired conditions.
American Family Physician October 1, 2005 Crane, Wittink & Doukas	Respecting End-of-Life Treatment Preferences Research suggests that families are the best sources of patients' values and preferences, and that patients will more likely choose a loved one to make future decisions for them than someone who might best articulate their wishes.
InternetNews April 1, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Online Shopping for Hospitals Hospital Compare gives the nation's hospitals a report card for key best practices.
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Managed Care July 2007 R. Knight Steel	Incentives Work Against Proper Elder Care The health care system encourages a reaction to episodes that is both costly and inefficient.
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PHONE+ February 26, 2010	Hospital Heals Patient Care With Optimum Lightpath Holy Name Hospital increased its bandwidth from a 3MB Internet connection to 100MB with Optimum Lightpath, adding much more capacity, speed and reliability for much less than it would cost for similar services with another carrier.
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