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Making Medication Safety a Top Priority
Medication reconciliation has always been a problematic process for a variety of reasons. Patients visit multiple providers and pharmacies and they may take over the counter and herbal medications unbeknownst to their providers. An accurate medication history requires...
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Hospitals Could Do More for Survivors of Opioid Overdoses, Study Suggests
A recent JAMA (Journal of American Medicine) article suggests that hospitals that treat patients for a non-fatal opioid overdose are not using this opportunity to determine if opioid over-prescribing is occurring or if the patient needs medication-assisted treatment....
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Success Along Highway 20 – Rural Nebraska
Chadron is located in rural area of Northwest Nebraska. A group of committed individuals came together to form a care transitions work group to ensure safer and improved coordination of care. Communities represented sit along Highway 20 in Western Nebraska;...
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Strategies to Keep the Adolescent Population’s Vaccinations Current
Many parents tend to think of vaccines as something needed for infants and young children, but less important later in life. Vaccination is one of the best ways parents can protect their children from 16 potentially harmful diseases. It’s essential that parents...
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Quality Health Associates Hosts 2017 Quality Forum
Over 150 attendees representing hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, home health agencies, hospice organizations, pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, public health, community support agencies, state agencies, payers, practice transformation networks, educational...
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Prevent Opioid Misuse among Females
In 2015, 33,091 Americans died as a result of opioid overdoses; a 15.6 percent increase from the previous year. This opioid crisis is having an impact on communities across the country, as deaths have increased across all races and almost all ages. However, the...
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Vaccines – a Critical Factor in Protecting Patient Health
Patients trust you to give them the best counsel on how to protect their health. You know that immunization is an important preventive measure – but it’s unlikely that getting vaccinated is on the radar for your adult patients. Your strong recommendation is critical...
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Compare Hospice Providers on Measures of Care Quality
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is sharing information about hospice providers to permit the public to compare hospice providers on measures of care quality. The Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) was established at section 1814(i)(5)...
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Can you Identify the 13 Prediabetes Risk Factors?
According to a recent study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. only 6 percent of Primary Care Practitioners (PCPs) were able to identify 11 prediabetes risk factors (there are actually 13) that would prompt them to screen patients under the American Diabetes...
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Building a Strong Vaccine Referral for All
August is National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM), encouraging the importance of vaccines for people of all ages. NIAM collaborates with the CDC to assist in the communication regarding vaccines for various audiences; this week, August 7-13, the focus is...