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Poster alerts patients to discharge responsibilities Markers allow family members to write questions Patients at Seton Medical Center are made aware of their proposed discharge date early in the stay [...]

Patient access has role in disease management ID chronic cases upfront, consultant says The great majority of U.S. health care dollars are spent supporting the chronically ill, yet the traditional [...]

Patient-centered care management saves money Provides contact for people with late-stage illness Patients with life-limiting conditions who received patient-centered management had dramatically reduced utilization and cost of care compared to [...]

Critial Path Network CMs at hospitalist meetings improves care Improved communication helps free up beds sooner When a representative from the case management department began attending the daily meeting of [...]

Experts: Lower caseloads when case managers take on more tasks When the role is diluted, patient care coordination may suffer It's happening all the time at hospitals across the nation. [...]

Proactive program makes low LWOT rate even lower Staff make every effort to retain patients in ED When is an LWOT (left without treatment) rate of 1% not good enough? [...]

Expert patient programmes are benefiting only the pushy white middle- classes and failing to attract those most in need, the Government's own evaluation of the scheme has concluded. Lack of [...]

Dr Jim Sherifi thinks that, though continuity of care for patients has not broken down yet, it is under threat, and the profession must be on its guard Are GPs [...]

Dr Melanie Wynne-Jones discusses what to do if asked to `drop in' on a patient by a relative Doctor, I'm a bit worried about my mother. I wonder if you [...]

How do you cope with your first patient who has some medical knowledge? Dr Melanie Wynne-Jones offers advice The patient with some medical knowledge can be good or bad to [...]

A Department of Health report criticising lack of communication between hospital doctors and GPs has sparked a furious row over shared-care protocols. The Management of Medicines report, published last week, [...]

How do we know when a client is doing well in therapy? Most clinicians are pragmatic and use a variety of informal indications, such as spontaneous verbal reports from the [...]

The National Quality Forum (NQF), a private, not-for-profit, public benefit corporation in Washington, DC, established in 1999 to standardize health care quality measurement and reporting, has endorsed HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer [...]

Patient safety is on everyone's minds these days, but how do you know how well your organization already is doing on this topic? One way is a tool offered by [...]

The fixed performance areas for random, unannounced surveys of home care organizations by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in 2005 are: assessment and care/service, patient safety, [...]