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The Impact of Patient Identification Errors
On average, hospitals have 30% of all claims denied and an average of 35% of these denied claims are attributed to inaccurate patient identification or inaccurate/incomplete patient information.
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Learn MoreOn average, hospitals have 30% of all claims denied and an average of 35% of these denied claims are attributed to inaccurate patient identification or inaccurate/incomplete patient information.
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If the amount of opioids prescribed per year were averaged out over each person living in the U.S., everyone would get about a two-week supply. What should clinicians and CMS do?
How can we protect nurses? A frequent answer is simply safety in numbers through adequate staffing, but thoughtful design of the patient care environment is also a key to prevention.
More importantly, just increasing the number of nurses isn’t going to be a solution. Healthcare is changing, and we are going to need nurses who can play different roles and have different skillsets.
The scientific literature perspective that opioids produced low rates of addiction and were relatively safe has fueled the problem. The tendency to prescribe opioids alongside aggressive marketing approaches has proven to accelerate our nation’s dependency on opioids.
Around 120 ambulances per day pull up to Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center in Las Vegas, NV. But even the busiest facility in Nevada couldn’t be fully prepared for what was coming, says Dr. Scherr.
The medical-coding staffing crisis has many causes, and so will require a multifaceted effort to create solutions around the immediate needs as well as preventing future problems.
Many organizations fail at vertical and horizontal alignment of goals, leaving employees confused as to what is expected of them, resulting in a lack of engagement in organizational goals and lack of positive outcomes.
While most providers rely on registrars to initiate a search of the MPI to assure positive patient identification, biometric scanning technology exists that can provide a more reliable and much faster approach.
The move to outpatient dominance requires that leaders adopt a new mindset when thinking about how healthcare is delivered. Following are several trends that may help advance your thinking and inform decision-making in your organization.
While seeking to address the issue of healthcare staff turnover, it is imperative to identify exactly the factors contributing to this phenomenon. Various qualitative studies worldwide have surveyed some common reasons for staff turnover in hospitals.
As hospitals take on more at-risk contracts in the value-based payment era, it is increasingly important that financial officers understand HCC capture and how the health status of contracted populations is calculated. Appropriately documenting and coding a patient’s full illness burden is essential to the financial health of hospitals.
Executive buy-in is a core component of a competent, continual and comprehensive CPR training system for healthcare workplaces.
When care transitions are being planned, every member of the care team should listen to the patient and the family. By placing the patient and family at the center, the team can facilitate a good transition and an effective plan of care for frail geriatric patients.
We asked two leaders in patient safety about how they engaged staff in patient safety initiatives, and they both agreed that employee engagement with their efforts was a key to success, sharing, “You can have the best plans, but the real work happens at the bedside.
Are they customers or patients? Dr. John Boornazian explains the difference. People may approach the continuum of care as customers, but when they develop trusting relationships with healthcare professionals, they become patients.
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Regardless of an individual’s cultural beliefs and practices, nurses have an inherent obligation to provide equal and ethical care to all patients.
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View All ProductsAddress staffing orientation challenges to easily achieve and maintain certification with our emergency and acute care training solutions.
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