Download or read book Methods of Physician Coverage of Emergency Rooms in Illinois Hospitals a Study of Factors Influencing the Selection of Methods in 221 Hospitals written by James Thomas Lassiter and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cumulated Index Medicus written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The CMS Hospital Conditions of Participation and Interpretive Guidelines written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to reprinting the PDF of the CMS CoPs and Interpretive Guidelines, we include key Survey and Certification memos that CMS has issued to announced changes to the emergency preparedness final rule, fire and smoke door annual testing requirements, survey team composition and investigation of complaints, infection control screenings, and legionella risk reduction.
Download or read book Factors affecting utilization of the emergency room Children s Memorial Hospital Chicago Illinois 1975 76 written by Katherine Kaufer Christoffel and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospital Literature Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Nationwide Framework for Surveillance of Cardiovascular and Chronic Lung Diseases written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic diseases are common and costly, yet they are also among the most preventable health problems. Comprehensive and accurate disease surveillance systems are needed to implement successful efforts which will reduce the burden of chronic diseases on the U.S. population. A number of sources of surveillance data-including population surveys, cohort studies, disease registries, administrative health data, and vital statistics-contribute critical information about chronic disease. But no central surveillance system provides the information needed to analyze how chronic disease impacts the U.S. population, to identify public health priorities, or to track the progress of preventive efforts. A Nationwide Framework for Surveillance of Cardiovascular and Chronic Lung Diseases outlines a conceptual framework for building a national chronic disease surveillance system focused primarily on cardiovascular and chronic lung diseases. This system should be capable of providing data on disparities in incidence and prevalence of the diseases by race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and geographic region, along with data on disease risk factors, clinical care delivery, and functional health outcomes. This coordinated surveillance system is needed to integrate and expand existing information across the multiple levels of decision making in order to generate actionable, timely knowledge for a range of stakeholders at the local, state or regional, and national levels. The recommendations presented in A Nationwide Framework for Surveillance of Cardiovascular and Chronic Lung Diseases focus on data collection, resource allocation, monitoring activities, and implementation. The report also recommends that systems evolve along with new knowledge about emerging risk factors, advancing technologies, and new understanding of the basis for disease. This report will inform decision-making among federal health agencies, especially the Department of Health and Human Services; public health and clinical practitioners; non-governmental organizations; and policy makers, among others.
Download or read book Report on the Review of Emergency Room Physician Staffing Issues written by Health Care Change Management Associates (N.B.) and published by . This book was released on 2001* with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future of Nursing 2020 2030 written by National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decade ahead will test the nation's nearly 4 million nurses in new and complex ways. Nurses live and work at the intersection of health, education, and communities. Nurses work in a wide array of settings and practice at a range of professional levels. They are often the first and most frequent line of contact with people of all backgrounds and experiences seeking care and they represent the largest of the health care professions. A nation cannot fully thrive until everyone - no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they make - can live their healthiest possible life, and helping people live their healthiest life is and has always been the essential role of nurses. Nurses have a critical role to play in achieving the goal of health equity, but they need robust education, supportive work environments, and autonomy. Accordingly, at the request of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, on behalf of the National Academy of Medicine, an ad hoc committee under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conducted a study aimed at envisioning and charting a path forward for the nursing profession to help reduce inequities in people's ability to achieve their full health potential. The ultimate goal is the achievement of health equity in the United States built on strengthened nursing capacity and expertise. By leveraging these attributes, nursing will help to create and contribute comprehensively to equitable public health and health care systems that are designed to work for everyone. The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity explores how nurses can work to reduce health disparities and promote equity, while keeping costs at bay, utilizing technology, and maintaining patient and family-focused care into 2030. This work builds on the foundation set out by The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2011) report.
Download or read book A Study to Determine the Relation of Patient Screening Methods and Selected Factors to Patient Length of Stay in a County General Hospital Emergency Room written by Margaret Ella Auld and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book For Emergency Use Only written by Anthony Spinelli and published by Healthcare Intelligence Net. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just teaching patients not to call their doctor at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon can reduce unnecessary emergency department (ED) utilization, a trend that is sapping the resources of EDs around the nation. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 55 percent of the 90 million visits to EDs in the United States in 1996 were unnecessary. In healthcare dollars, that means that 40.5 million people paid up to three times as much for routine care at the ED as they would have paid at a physician?s office. Teaching timely access to outpatient care is just one tactic covered in this special report, which is based on an October 2006 audio conference sponsored by the Healthcare Intelligence Network (HIN). For Emergency Use Only: Curbing Unnecessary Emergency Room Use Through Education, Accountability and Physician Engagement provides a blueprint for health plans, hospitals and providers desiring to address and reduce unnecessary ED utilization in their populations. In this 35-page special report, Roberta Burgess, clinical case manager, Community Care Plan of Eastern Carolina, and Gerald Kiplinger, vice president and executive director of the Georgia Enhanced Care program for APS Healthcare, detail how to target and reduce unnecessary and inappropriate ED use. You'll get details on initiatives and interventions for decreasing non-urgent ED use, mining data to target high-utilization, high-cost individuals, implementing an ED case management program, communicating proper ED use to targeted populations and enlisting physicians' support in care redirection and appropriate ED use. Table of Contents Redirecting Care to Appropriate Settings -Types of Care and the Costs of Chronic Illness -Opportunities to Redirect Care to Appropriate Settings -The Role of Referral Agencies and Support Services -Increasing PCP Access To Reduce Emergency Care Visits -Call Centers Serve Multiple Purposes -ED Reductions a Side Effect of Healthy Together! DM Program Goodbye Emergency Room, Hello Primary Medical Care -Defining an Emergency -Profiles of Serial Users and Frequent Fliers -Benefits of Partnerships with Community Organizations, Providers -Communication Via Toolkits, Outreach and Self-Management -Mining Reports to Target High-Utilization, High-Cost Individuals -Case Management That Meets the Client in Their Environment -Motivating Physicians to Help -Removing the Stigma of Case Management -Making All Players Accountable Q&A: Ask the Experts -Determining When Screenings are Billable -ED vs. Urgent Care Facilities -The Advent of ?Minute Clinics? in Retail Space -Case Manager Work Schedules and Case Loads -Models for ED ?At-the-Door? Screening -Making the Case for Urgent Care Centers -Redirecting Patients to Lower Levels of Care -Costs for Running the ?Healthy Together? Program -Dissecting Diabetes Results in ?Healthy Together? Effort -Enlisting Providers? Support for ED Redirection Efforts -Referral Turnaround Times -Responsibilities of the ED Case Manager -Monitoring ED Visits Related to Drug Interactions -Statewide DM and CM Efforts -Future ED Redirection Initiatives -Benchmarks for ED Utilization by Population -Analyzing ED Visits by Type of Coverage -Investigating FQHC-Hospital ED Partnerships Glossary For More Information About the Author
Download or read book Retooling for an Aging America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first of the nation's 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and woefully unprepared to meet their specific health needs. Retooling for an Aging America calls for bold initiatives starting immediately to train all health care providers in the basics of geriatric care and to prepare family members and other informal caregivers, who currently receive little or no training in how to tend to their aging loved ones. The book also recommends that Medicare, Medicaid, and other health plans pay higher rates to boost recruitment and retention of geriatric specialists and care aides. Educators and health professional groups can use Retooling for an Aging America to institute or increase formal education and training in geriatrics. Consumer groups can use the book to advocate for improving the care for older adults. Health care professional and occupational groups can use it to improve the quality of health care jobs.
Download or read book Physicians on Call written by Lois Green and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005, CHCF's On-Call Physicians at California Emergency Departments: Problems and Potential Solutions delved into the growing challenge of ensuring on-call access to physician specialists in California's emergency departments (EDs). This new study provides updated information on on-call coverage in hospital EDs. This study was conducted by The Performance Alliance, in cooperation with the University of Southern California Center for Health Financing, Policy and Management, and included a survey of hospitals, conducted in partnership with the California Hospital Association. The new research shows that erosion of ED specialty call in California EDs is unabated. Slightly more than half of hospital executives surveyed believe that provision of on-call ED coverage in California has become more difficult, while 88% say that payment for specialty call has "become a cost of doing business," and four-fifths report that securing specialty coverage is among their organization's top ten business challenges or priorities. To address the problem, myriad call coverage strategies have been introduced among California's hospitals. These include: * Compensation strategies to replace straight stipends, such as productivity-based guarantee and hybrid models, deferred compensation programs, and clinical co-management agreements; * Provider strategies to replace mandatory call, including exclusive call contracts, ED call independent practice associations, hospitalists, use of physician's assistants and nurse practitioners as first responders, and telemedicine and remote presence robotics; * Care improvement strategies to reduce the burden of call, such as multi-disciplinary taskforce to improve ED efficiency, rapid triage programs, ED observation units, ED fast-track programs, and internal EDs; and * Organizational and delivery system strategies such as medical foundations, contracting out, community call plans, regional call coverage, and regional transfer call centers. Sharing the burden of call coverage has broad conceptual appeal for hospitals, but implementation of community call in California has been limited by state licensing regulations, geography, and competitive factors. Technology deployment is also seen as having significant positive effects on ED specialty care in the future. The impact of health reform on specialists and EDs looms large, however, and will require new and collaborative approaches that recognize a shared responsibility between hospitals and specialist physicians for ensuring access to quality, affordable care.
Download or read book Current Bibliography of Epidemiology written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly, with annual cumulations. Comprehensive, current index to periodical medical literature intended for use of practitioners, investigators, and other workers in community medicine who are concerned with the etiology, prevention, and control of disease. Citations are derived from MEDLARS tapes for Index medicus of corresponding date. Arrangement by 2 sections, i.e., Selected subject headings, and Diseases, organisms, vaccines. No author index.
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Download or read book Medical and Health Annual written by Ellen Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book For Profit Enterprise in Health Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book is] the most authoritative assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of recent trends toward the commercialization of health care," says Robert Pear of The New York Times. This major study by the Institute of Medicine examines virtually all aspects of for-profit health care in the United States, including the quality and availability of health care, the cost of medical care, access to financial capital, implications for education and research, and the fiduciary role of the physician. In addition to the report, the book contains 15 papers by experts in the field of for-profit health care covering a broad range of topicsâ€"from trends in the growth of major investor-owned hospital companies to the ethical issues in for-profit health care. "The report makes a lasting contribution to the health policy literature." â€"Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Download or read book Adolescent Health Services written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-12-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolescence is a time of major transition, however, health care services in the United States today are not designed to help young people develop healthy routines, behaviors, and relationships that they can carry into their adult lives. While most adolescents at this stage of life are thriving, many of them have difficulty gaining access to necessary services; other engage in risky behaviors that can jeopardize their health during these formative years and also contribute to poor health outcomes in adulthood. Missed opportunities for disease prevention and health promotion are two major problematic features of our nation's health services system for adolescents. Recognizing that health care providers play an important role in fostering healthy behaviors among adolescents, Adolescent Health Services examines the health status of adolescents and reviews the separate and uncoordinated programs and services delivered in multiple public and private health care settings. The book provides guidance to administrators in public and private health care agencies, health care workers, guidance counselors, parents, school administrators, and policy makers on investing in, strengthening, and improving an integrated health system for adolescents.
