This resource summarizes the eight recommendations outlined in the Institute of Medicine's a new consensus study entitled, Improving Diagnosis in Health Care. The recommendations are aimed at making diagnoses more accurate, reliable, efficient, and safe. This work is a continuation of the IOM’s Quality Chasm series.
Presented at the 2015 IHI International Forum byThe Royal Melbourne Hospital of Victoria,Australia, this poster,speaks to the power of Shadowing to engage patients and families in decisions of care, specifically the post-discharge planning process.
Closing the Loop: Strategies to Extend Care in the EDEngagingPatients
This HIMSS15 presentation discusses the challenges faced in hospital emergency departments and offers insights for implementing a process to follow up with discharged ED patients to enhance outcomes and satisfaction,while optimizing utilization and reducing risk.
PFCC INFOGRAPHIC: Six Steps to Patient EngagementEngagingPatients
The challenges of creating patient and family-centered care seem daunting. However, the PFCC Innovation Center of UPMC demonstrates it's easier than you think. In this infographic, you see it begins by engaging patients through a simple six step process.
Patient & Family Advisory Councils: the Business Case for Starting a PFAC & P...EngagingPatients
This webinar was presented on March 12, 2015 by Barbara Lewis. It looks at the prevalence and roles that Patient & Family Advisory Councils (PFACs) are playing in U.S. hospitals today, and builds a business case for their implementation:
In first of two-part series, Pamela Greenhouse explores the differences and similarities of the Patient and Family Centered Care Methodology and Practice (PFCC M/P) and leean process improvement approachs, such as Lean, Six Sigma and Toyota. She believes that the PFCC M/P can be the unifying theme for health care, incorporating both process improvement and performance improvement.
Clinical practice guidelines and quality metrics often emphasize effectiveness over patient-centered care. In this article, the authors offer three approaches to personalizing quality measurement to ensure patient preferences and values guide all clinical decisions.
Gamification as a means to manage chronic diseaseEngagingPatients
UPMC is exploring ways to better engage patients through shared decision making and new approaches to encourage patients and their families to take control of their health. This presentation describes a pilot program UPMC has initiated to leverage gamification as a means to manage chronic heart failure.
Presented at the 2015 IHI International Forum byThe Royal Melbourne Hospital of Victoria,Australia, this poster,speaks to the power of Shadowing to engage patients and families in decisions of care, specifically the post-discharge planning process.
Closing the Loop: Strategies to Extend Care in the EDEngagingPatients
This HIMSS15 presentation discusses the challenges faced in hospital emergency departments and offers insights for implementing a process to follow up with discharged ED patients to enhance outcomes and satisfaction,while optimizing utilization and reducing risk.
PFCC INFOGRAPHIC: Six Steps to Patient EngagementEngagingPatients
The challenges of creating patient and family-centered care seem daunting. However, the PFCC Innovation Center of UPMC demonstrates it's easier than you think. In this infographic, you see it begins by engaging patients through a simple six step process.
Patient & Family Advisory Councils: the Business Case for Starting a PFAC & P...EngagingPatients
This webinar was presented on March 12, 2015 by Barbara Lewis. It looks at the prevalence and roles that Patient & Family Advisory Councils (PFACs) are playing in U.S. hospitals today, and builds a business case for their implementation:
In first of two-part series, Pamela Greenhouse explores the differences and similarities of the Patient and Family Centered Care Methodology and Practice (PFCC M/P) and leean process improvement approachs, such as Lean, Six Sigma and Toyota. She believes that the PFCC M/P can be the unifying theme for health care, incorporating both process improvement and performance improvement.
Clinical practice guidelines and quality metrics often emphasize effectiveness over patient-centered care. In this article, the authors offer three approaches to personalizing quality measurement to ensure patient preferences and values guide all clinical decisions.
Gamification as a means to manage chronic diseaseEngagingPatients
UPMC is exploring ways to better engage patients through shared decision making and new approaches to encourage patients and their families to take control of their health. This presentation describes a pilot program UPMC has initiated to leverage gamification as a means to manage chronic heart failure.
This infographic speaks to the challenges Emergency Departments face in caring and following up with the growing population of patients they see, and demonstrates how some EDs are seeing measurable improvements in care, patient satisfaction and efficiency.
Creating value through patient support programsSKIM
How do we become more patient-centered as an organization? How do we ensure the patient/caregiver experience is as optimal as possible?
These are the questions that are being poised to healthcare market researchers in today’s healthcare landscape. And typically healthcare market researchers are turning to methods like “patient journeys” and “patient personas” to help bring that patient-centered understanding to the organization. Problem is … in order to be truly patient-centered, you need to take this charge on from the inside out.
Experience, Design and Innovation departments are springing up in all kinds of healthcare organizations intent on facilitating the organizational shift towards patient-centricity. And, unfortunately, market researchers are intentionally not being invited to the table. If history repeats itself, that will soon change though. These Experience, Design and Innovation departments will need the rigor and breadth of method knowledge that market researchers have in order to succeed in the strategic agendas of their work.
This presentation will give market researcher pointers on which skills, methods and mindsets they’ll likely need to adopt if they are hoping to be perceived as a valued contributor to an Experience, Design or Innovation team. In essence, give attendees a blueprint for how to open up a whole new professional opportunity for themselves, with a simple reframe on whom they are and what they do.
Partnering with Patients, Families and Communities for Health: A Global Imper...EngagingPatients
Engagement is an essential tool to improving global health. This report introduces a new framework for engagement to help countries assess current programs and think strategically about future engagement opportunities. It spotlights barriers to engagement and offers concrete examples of effective engagement from around the globe.
Objectives:
By the end of this call, you will be able to:
•Describe the processes of Root-Cause Analysis (RCA) and Multi-Incident Analysis (MIA) and their role in quality improvement
•Compare and contrast the different approaches to collecting hospital-acquired VTE data
•Identify an approach suitable for improving patient safety at your institution
Dr. Edward Wagner, Director (Emeritus) MacColl Center, Senior Investigator, Group Health Research Institute addresses the 2014 Weitzman Symposium on The Future of Primary Care
Redefining the role of patient support programs: Shifting the focus towards p...SKIM
Presented by:
Alex Zhu, Manager
Ariel Herrlich, Analyst
The recent shift toward consumerism and patient empowerment is driving companies to reevaluate the role and design of patient support programs. Historically, pharmaceutical manufacturers implemented support programs largely as a way to address patient non-adherence.
These programs were often single-based solutions designed to meet mass market needs. Next generation patient support programs will go beyond simple adherence to address holistic disease management through individualized, patient-centric service offerings.
Using a case study, we illustrated:
- How to evaluate your current patient support program offerings, using a combination of standard and non-standard metrics and exercises
- Re-define what “value” means in a world of patient-centricity and personalized care
- Assess the impact/ROI of potential new service offerings and enhancements
On November 17, 2015 the ICU Collaborative Faculty held a National Call to determine the 2016 National Improvement Initiative. Two topics were presented: Dr. Yoanna Skrobik advocated on the side of Pain, Agitation and Delirium. Dr. Claudio Martin and Cathy Mawdsley advocated for working on End of Life Care. Callers voted at the end of the call and chose the new topic led by Dr. Skrobik: Managing “PAD” in your ICU patient: assessment, treatment and prevention.
Leveraging Patient Support Programs in Biologic-Biosimilar Competitive LandscapeAlex Xiaoguang Zhu
Biologics are facing intense competition from biosimilars. In this competitive landscape, strategic levers for both branded biologics and biosimilars typically include payor strategy, promotion and new formulation. As patients become more engaged and patient-centricity is on the rise, there is an increased opportunity to leverage patient support programs as additional strategic lever. This presentation will cover five key learnings that we have uncovered while conducting multi-phase patient support program research for both branded biologics and biosimilars.
Hear firsthand from Healthcare Improvement Scotland and one of their teams that participated in the U.K. Health Foundation collaborative about their experience in applying the Vincent Framework at the frontline. The related challenges and benefits and how it has impacted their work.
mHealth Israel_Top Health Industry Issues of 2021_Will a Shocked System Emerg...Levi Shapiro
Presentation by PwC Health Research Institute for mHealth Israel, February 17, 2021: Top Health Industry Issues of 2021...Will a Shocked System Emerge Stronger?
Key Sections:
1) Rightsizing after virtual visit explosion
2) Changing clinical trials
3) Easing physician burden with digital
4) Healthcare forecast for 2021
5) Reshaping health portfolios
6) Resilient and responsive supply chains
7) Inter-Operability
Purpose of the Call:
•Provide an overview of the MARQUIS toolkit components, informed by medication reconciliation best practices, designed to help hospitals improve the quality of their medication reconciliation processes
•Preview the preliminary results of the MARQUIS study in order to understand the effects of a mentored quality improvement intervention on medication reconciliation errors
•Discuss lessons learned from study sites that have implemented the MARQUIS program and how they might be applied to Canadian hospitals, including an exploration of barriers to implementation and how to overcome them
•Make the case for provinces, health systems, and hospitals to invest in medication reconciliation quality improvement efforts, and why physicians need to play a major role in these efforts.
Watch the webinar: http://bit.ly/1ji1voq
mHealth Israel_Incorporating the Patient Voice into Clinical Delivery Models ...Levi Shapiro
Incorporating the Patient Voice into Clinical Delivery Models for Person-Centered Care, presentation by Alan Balch, CEO, National Patient Advocate Foundation.
This workshop will look at patient care pathways and demonstrate how simulation can combine process flow across; services, clinical best practice and the progression of patients through disease states, to test the impact of improvement initiatives on patient care, outcomes, costs and resource utilization.
Using examples from recent projects on simulating care pathways within HIV services, and simulating future service needs for dementia care, we show the results of combining disease progression with service utilization.
In the workshop, we’ll consider what the ideal pathway model would look like and invite you to work with us to build a pathway using our latest technology.
The purpose of this call is to learn how the Department of Family Medicine at Queen’s University was able to:
•Raise awareness about medication safety issues ‐ specifically medication reconciliation in primary care.
•Highlight the need for better communication and connectivity between hospitals, pharmacies, and primary care. (And how we can help each other.)
•Suggest that primary care take on a leadership role in medication safety ‐ we can (and should!) "own" the list.
•Stress the importance of medication reconciliation as a continuous, interdisciplinary, and collaborative activity.
Healthcare organizations in Canada are making great strides in promoting safer patient care through engagement and partnership. Now the best of these organizations would like to share their successes and lessons learned with you!
Full details:
https://goo.gl/NukquA
In Part II, Ms. Greenhouse provides suggestions for integrating the Patient and Family Centered Care Methodology and Practice (PFCC M/P) in those healthcare organizations where Lean process improvement approaches (Lean, Six Sigma and Toyota, etc.) are already in use.
Clinical practice guidelines and quality metrics often emphasize effectiveness over patient-centered care. In this article, the authors offer three approaches to personalizing quality measurement to ensure patient preferences and values guide all clinical decisions.
This infographic speaks to the challenges Emergency Departments face in caring and following up with the growing population of patients they see, and demonstrates how some EDs are seeing measurable improvements in care, patient satisfaction and efficiency.
Creating value through patient support programsSKIM
How do we become more patient-centered as an organization? How do we ensure the patient/caregiver experience is as optimal as possible?
These are the questions that are being poised to healthcare market researchers in today’s healthcare landscape. And typically healthcare market researchers are turning to methods like “patient journeys” and “patient personas” to help bring that patient-centered understanding to the organization. Problem is … in order to be truly patient-centered, you need to take this charge on from the inside out.
Experience, Design and Innovation departments are springing up in all kinds of healthcare organizations intent on facilitating the organizational shift towards patient-centricity. And, unfortunately, market researchers are intentionally not being invited to the table. If history repeats itself, that will soon change though. These Experience, Design and Innovation departments will need the rigor and breadth of method knowledge that market researchers have in order to succeed in the strategic agendas of their work.
This presentation will give market researcher pointers on which skills, methods and mindsets they’ll likely need to adopt if they are hoping to be perceived as a valued contributor to an Experience, Design or Innovation team. In essence, give attendees a blueprint for how to open up a whole new professional opportunity for themselves, with a simple reframe on whom they are and what they do.
Partnering with Patients, Families and Communities for Health: A Global Imper...EngagingPatients
Engagement is an essential tool to improving global health. This report introduces a new framework for engagement to help countries assess current programs and think strategically about future engagement opportunities. It spotlights barriers to engagement and offers concrete examples of effective engagement from around the globe.
Objectives:
By the end of this call, you will be able to:
•Describe the processes of Root-Cause Analysis (RCA) and Multi-Incident Analysis (MIA) and their role in quality improvement
•Compare and contrast the different approaches to collecting hospital-acquired VTE data
•Identify an approach suitable for improving patient safety at your institution
Dr. Edward Wagner, Director (Emeritus) MacColl Center, Senior Investigator, Group Health Research Institute addresses the 2014 Weitzman Symposium on The Future of Primary Care
Redefining the role of patient support programs: Shifting the focus towards p...SKIM
Presented by:
Alex Zhu, Manager
Ariel Herrlich, Analyst
The recent shift toward consumerism and patient empowerment is driving companies to reevaluate the role and design of patient support programs. Historically, pharmaceutical manufacturers implemented support programs largely as a way to address patient non-adherence.
These programs were often single-based solutions designed to meet mass market needs. Next generation patient support programs will go beyond simple adherence to address holistic disease management through individualized, patient-centric service offerings.
Using a case study, we illustrated:
- How to evaluate your current patient support program offerings, using a combination of standard and non-standard metrics and exercises
- Re-define what “value” means in a world of patient-centricity and personalized care
- Assess the impact/ROI of potential new service offerings and enhancements
On November 17, 2015 the ICU Collaborative Faculty held a National Call to determine the 2016 National Improvement Initiative. Two topics were presented: Dr. Yoanna Skrobik advocated on the side of Pain, Agitation and Delirium. Dr. Claudio Martin and Cathy Mawdsley advocated for working on End of Life Care. Callers voted at the end of the call and chose the new topic led by Dr. Skrobik: Managing “PAD” in your ICU patient: assessment, treatment and prevention.
Leveraging Patient Support Programs in Biologic-Biosimilar Competitive LandscapeAlex Xiaoguang Zhu
Biologics are facing intense competition from biosimilars. In this competitive landscape, strategic levers for both branded biologics and biosimilars typically include payor strategy, promotion and new formulation. As patients become more engaged and patient-centricity is on the rise, there is an increased opportunity to leverage patient support programs as additional strategic lever. This presentation will cover five key learnings that we have uncovered while conducting multi-phase patient support program research for both branded biologics and biosimilars.
Hear firsthand from Healthcare Improvement Scotland and one of their teams that participated in the U.K. Health Foundation collaborative about their experience in applying the Vincent Framework at the frontline. The related challenges and benefits and how it has impacted their work.
mHealth Israel_Top Health Industry Issues of 2021_Will a Shocked System Emerg...Levi Shapiro
Presentation by PwC Health Research Institute for mHealth Israel, February 17, 2021: Top Health Industry Issues of 2021...Will a Shocked System Emerge Stronger?
Key Sections:
1) Rightsizing after virtual visit explosion
2) Changing clinical trials
3) Easing physician burden with digital
4) Healthcare forecast for 2021
5) Reshaping health portfolios
6) Resilient and responsive supply chains
7) Inter-Operability
Purpose of the Call:
•Provide an overview of the MARQUIS toolkit components, informed by medication reconciliation best practices, designed to help hospitals improve the quality of their medication reconciliation processes
•Preview the preliminary results of the MARQUIS study in order to understand the effects of a mentored quality improvement intervention on medication reconciliation errors
•Discuss lessons learned from study sites that have implemented the MARQUIS program and how they might be applied to Canadian hospitals, including an exploration of barriers to implementation and how to overcome them
•Make the case for provinces, health systems, and hospitals to invest in medication reconciliation quality improvement efforts, and why physicians need to play a major role in these efforts.
Watch the webinar: http://bit.ly/1ji1voq
mHealth Israel_Incorporating the Patient Voice into Clinical Delivery Models ...Levi Shapiro
Incorporating the Patient Voice into Clinical Delivery Models for Person-Centered Care, presentation by Alan Balch, CEO, National Patient Advocate Foundation.
This workshop will look at patient care pathways and demonstrate how simulation can combine process flow across; services, clinical best practice and the progression of patients through disease states, to test the impact of improvement initiatives on patient care, outcomes, costs and resource utilization.
Using examples from recent projects on simulating care pathways within HIV services, and simulating future service needs for dementia care, we show the results of combining disease progression with service utilization.
In the workshop, we’ll consider what the ideal pathway model would look like and invite you to work with us to build a pathway using our latest technology.
The purpose of this call is to learn how the Department of Family Medicine at Queen’s University was able to:
•Raise awareness about medication safety issues ‐ specifically medication reconciliation in primary care.
•Highlight the need for better communication and connectivity between hospitals, pharmacies, and primary care. (And how we can help each other.)
•Suggest that primary care take on a leadership role in medication safety ‐ we can (and should!) "own" the list.
•Stress the importance of medication reconciliation as a continuous, interdisciplinary, and collaborative activity.
Healthcare organizations in Canada are making great strides in promoting safer patient care through engagement and partnership. Now the best of these organizations would like to share their successes and lessons learned with you!
Full details:
https://goo.gl/NukquA
In Part II, Ms. Greenhouse provides suggestions for integrating the Patient and Family Centered Care Methodology and Practice (PFCC M/P) in those healthcare organizations where Lean process improvement approaches (Lean, Six Sigma and Toyota, etc.) are already in use.
Clinical practice guidelines and quality metrics often emphasize effectiveness over patient-centered care. In this article, the authors offer three approaches to personalizing quality measurement to ensure patient preferences and values guide all clinical decisions.
Patients and their loved ones often hold critical knowledge that informs diagnosis. This toolkit from the Institute of Medicine offers patients, families and clinicians guidance on how they can collaborate to improve diagnosis.
Building Patient-Centeredness in the Real World: The Engaged Patient and the ...EngagingPatients
This paper examines the separate but intertwined ethical, economic and clinical concepts of patientcenteredness and how ACOs provide a structure for turning those concepts into a functioning reality.
This presentation from the 2014 ASHRM Conference analyzes the legal, regulatory and clinical risks related to meaningful consent and offers ways to mitigate them.
Safety is Personal: Partnering with Patients and Families for the Safest CareEngagingPatients
The work of NPSF"s Lucian Leape Institute's Roundtable on Consumer Engagement, "Safety Is Personal: Partnering with Patients and Families for the Safest Care" is a call to action for health leaders, clinicians, and policy makers to take the necessary steps to ensure patient and family engagement at all levels of health care.The report identifies specific action items for health leaders, clinicians, and policy makers to pursue in making patient and family engagement a core value in the provision of health. care.
This infographic from The Beryl Institute presents key findings from its study, the "State of Patient Experience 2015: A Global Perspective on the Patient Experience Movement," which engaged over 1,500 respondents in 50 countries, sharing challenges and opportunities in addressing the patient experience across all healthcare settings.
This helpful guide gives caregivers and clinicians a better understanding of dementia and the need for a patient-centered dementia care. It includes practical tips for communicating, eating well and improving well-being, plus advice on assistive technology and creative therapies.
What quality measures does the MCO have in placeSolutionManag.pdfformicreation
What quality measures does the MCO have in place?
Solution
Managed care organizations (MCOs) are responsible for ensuring that persons enrolled in their
plans receive quality health care. In addition, MCOs publicly funded through the Medicare and
Medicaid programs are required by State and Federal governments to meet certain quality
standards.
To fulfill their responsibilities, MCOs need ready access to a comprehensive array of evidence-
based clinical information and other clinical performance measures to enable them to evaluate
their providers\' performance and identify areas where improvement is needed. They also need to
know how their members feel about the care they receive and the way they are treated. Finally,
they need to ensure that both their providers and members are aware of the most recent
preventive care recommendations.
Valid, reliable, and cost-effective measurement tools must be available to make such
determinations, but these tools have not always been available. Furthermore, because the science
of performance measurement is relatively new, additional measures need to be developed and
those that have been developed can be improved. Therefore, to ensure that their enrollees in
MCOs receive high-quality care, MCOs need a reliable source to provide the most current and
scientifically sound tools.
In response to this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has funded
research to compile a database of evidence-based clinical guidelines and to develop clinical
performance measures, member satisfaction surveys, and preventive care recommendations that
can help MCOs meet their responsibilities. Additionally, AHRQ funds research and develops
performance measures and guidelines that MCOs, insurers, providers, and consumers can trust.
This report describes these tools and how they have been used and provides information on
where to learn more about them.
Background
Around one-half of insured Americans are enrolled in some form of managed care. However, as
the number of persons enrolled in MCOs increased in the 1990s, health care purchasers,
policymakers, and other stakeholders became concerned about the potential for health care
quality to diminish. In their view, the policies and practices imposed by MCOs to reduce what
MCOs define as unnecessary care might result in patients not receiving needed care. Therefore,
MCOs faced accreditation systems and other requirements to ensure that patients were receiving
the most appropriate care.
More recently, MCOs have had to address other emerging concerns such as: Rapid introduction
of new technologies, Data showing unexplained variations in the provision of care, Severe cost
pressures.
These factors have provided additional motivation to MCOs to develop systematic ways of
preserving and enhancing health care quality and cost-effectiveness.
Evidence-based practice guidelines and performance measures were developed to help ensure
that patients always receive the most appropri.
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Write a 3 page evidence-based health care delivery plan for one .docxowenhall46084
Write a 3 page evidence-based health care delivery plan for one component of a heart failure clinic.
Nursing within an organization is a critical component of health care delivery and is an essential ingredient in patient outcomes (Kelly & Tazbir, 2014). The concern for quality care that flows from evidence-based practice generates a desired outcome. Without these factors, a nurse cannot be an effective leader. It is important to lead not only from this position but from knowledge and expertise.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 2: Explain the accountability of the nurse leader for decisions that affect health care delivery and patient outcomes.
Describe accountability tools and procedures used to measure effectiveness.
Competency 3: Apply management strategies and best practices for health care finance, human resources, and materials allocation decisions to improve health care delivery and patient outcomes.
Develop an evidence-based plan for health care delivery.
Competency 4: Apply professional standards of moral, ethical, and legal conduct in professional practice.
Apply professional and legal standards in support of a care plan.
Competency 5: Communicate in manner that is consistent with the expectations of a nursing professional.
Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and current APA style.
In an effort to improve the patients' health literacy concerning heart failure, it is important that the clinic staff and the hospital staff present a consistent, evidence-based message on self-care to these patients and their families in order to decrease acute exacerbation and re-admissions. Review current evidence for clinical practice guides or protocols when developing your patient teaching plans and materials. Consider the following:
What does the patient know about the disease process as a baseline?
What does the patient need to do understand as far as the best self-care processes?
Can the patient identify proper medication compliance?
Is there a financial issue that affects compliance?
Who buys and prepares the food in the home?
Can the patient verbalize when to seek medical assistance?
Instructions
Deliverable:
Develop an evidence-based plan for health care delivery.
Scenario:
The hospital where you work has an issue with increased readmissions within 30 days of discharge. After examining the core measures, it was found that heart failure was the most common core measure disease process experiencing the highest rate of readmissions. The leadership team has given your team the charge of developing a nurse-run outpatient heart failure clinic. The purpose of this clinic is to ensure that discharge education is presented to the patient in an orderly, consistent manner and complies with evidence-based practice protocol.
How to improve patient recruitment in clinical trials.pdfprocth2
To improve patient recruitment in clinical trials, implement targeted outreach strategies, collaborate with healthcare providers, engage with patient advocacy groups, and utilize digital marketing for broader visibility.
Stakeholder Engagement in a Patient-Reported Outcomes Implementation by a Pra...Marion Sills
Kwan BM, Sills MR, Graham D, Hamer MK, Fairclough DL, Hammermeister KE, Kaiser A, Diaz-Perez MJ, Schilling LM. Stakeholder Engagement in a Patient-Reported Outcomes Implementation by a Practice-Based Research Network. JABFM. In Press.
In this presentation from the Beryl Institute's 2016 Patient Experience Conference, Edwards-Elmhurst Healthcare’s ED Chair and Patient Experience Director detail how they are leveraging technology to follow up with ED Patients and the exceptional results they’ve enjoyed.
Creating a standard of care for patient and family engagementEngagingPatients
Nationally-recognized governance expert Beth Daley Ullem addresses the state of patient engagement in heathcare and provides a vision for establishing a minimum standard of care for patient engagement programs.
The journey a young asthma patient takes can be scary, but this poster provides a pictorial representation of what pediatric patients can expect when they visit the hospital, helping to ease their anxiety and improve their experience.
This Patient Poster was co-designed by an ICU patient and family, and staff at Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC to provide staff with a better understanding of the patient and his preferences. Guided by principles of the PFCC Methodology and Practice, they set out to create the ideal care experience for this patient and others.
R3 Stem Cells and Kidney Repair A New Horizon in Nephrology.pptxR3 Stem Cell
R3 Stem Cells and Kidney Repair: A New Horizon in Nephrology" explores groundbreaking advancements in the use of R3 stem cells for kidney disease treatment. This insightful piece delves into the potential of these cells to regenerate damaged kidney tissue, offering new hope for patients and reshaping the future of nephrology.
CHAPTER 1 SEMESTER V - ROLE OF PEADIATRIC NURSE.pdfSachin Sharma
Pediatric nurses play a vital role in the health and well-being of children. Their responsibilities are wide-ranging, and their objectives can be categorized into several key areas:
1. Direct Patient Care:
Objective: Provide comprehensive and compassionate care to infants, children, and adolescents in various healthcare settings (hospitals, clinics, etc.).
This includes tasks like:
Monitoring vital signs and physical condition.
Administering medications and treatments.
Performing procedures as directed by doctors.
Assisting with daily living activities (bathing, feeding).
Providing emotional support and pain management.
2. Health Promotion and Education:
Objective: Promote healthy behaviors and educate children, families, and communities about preventive healthcare.
This includes tasks like:
Administering vaccinations.
Providing education on nutrition, hygiene, and development.
Offering breastfeeding and childbirth support.
Counseling families on safety and injury prevention.
3. Collaboration and Advocacy:
Objective: Collaborate effectively with doctors, social workers, therapists, and other healthcare professionals to ensure coordinated care for children.
Objective: Advocate for the rights and best interests of their patients, especially when children cannot speak for themselves.
This includes tasks like:
Communicating effectively with healthcare teams.
Identifying and addressing potential risks to child welfare.
Educating families about their child's condition and treatment options.
4. Professional Development and Research:
Objective: Stay up-to-date on the latest advancements in pediatric healthcare through continuing education and research.
Objective: Contribute to improving the quality of care for children by participating in research initiatives.
This includes tasks like:
Attending workshops and conferences on pediatric nursing.
Participating in clinical trials related to child health.
Implementing evidence-based practices into their daily routines.
By fulfilling these objectives, pediatric nurses play a crucial role in ensuring the optimal health and well-being of children throughout all stages of their development.
CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary gene-editing tool, holds immense potential to reshape medicine, agriculture, and our understanding of life. But like any powerful tool, it comes with ethical considerations.
Unveiling CRISPR: This naturally occurring bacterial defense system (crRNA & Cas9 protein) fights viruses. Scientists repurposed it for precise gene editing (correction, deletion, insertion) by targeting specific DNA sequences.
The Promise: CRISPR offers exciting possibilities:
Gene Therapy: Correcting genetic diseases like cystic fibrosis.
Agriculture: Engineering crops resistant to pests and harsh environments.
Research: Studying gene function to unlock new knowledge.
The Peril: Ethical concerns demand attention:
Off-target Effects: Unintended DNA edits can have unforeseen consequences.
Eugenics: Misusing CRISPR for designer babies raises social and ethical questions.
Equity: High costs could limit access to this potentially life-saving technology.
The Path Forward: Responsible development is crucial:
International Collaboration: Clear guidelines are needed for research and human trials.
Public Education: Open discussions ensure informed decisions about CRISPR.
Prioritize Safety and Ethics: Safety and ethical principles must be paramount.
CRISPR offers a powerful tool for a better future, but responsible development and addressing ethical concerns are essential. By prioritizing safety, fostering open dialogue, and ensuring equitable access, we can harness CRISPR's power for the benefit of all. (2998 characters)
Navigating the Health Insurance Market_ Understanding Trends and Options.pdfEnterprise Wired
From navigating policy options to staying informed about industry trends, this comprehensive guide explores everything you need to know about the health insurance market.
Navigating Challenges: Mental Health, Legislation, and the Prison System in B...Guillermo Rivera
This conference will delve into the intricate intersections between mental health, legal frameworks, and the prison system in Bolivia. It aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current challenges faced by mental health professionals working within the legislative and correctional landscapes. Topics of discussion will include the prevalence and impact of mental health issues among the incarcerated population, the effectiveness of existing mental health policies and legislation, and potential reforms to enhance the mental health support system within prisons.
CHAPTER 1 SEMESTER V PREVENTIVE-PEDIATRICS.pdfSachin Sharma
This content provides an overview of preventive pediatrics. It defines preventive pediatrics as preventing disease and promoting children's physical, mental, and social well-being to achieve positive health. It discusses antenatal, postnatal, and social preventive pediatrics. It also covers various child health programs like immunization, breastfeeding, ICDS, and the roles of organizations like WHO, UNICEF, and nurses in preventive pediatrics.
Medical Technology Tackles New Health Care Demand - Research Report - March 2...pchutichetpong
M Capital Group (“MCG”) predicts that with, against, despite, and even without the global pandemic, the medical technology (MedTech) industry shows signs of continuous healthy growth, driven by smaller, faster, and cheaper devices, growing demand for home-based applications, technological innovation, strategic acquisitions, investments, and SPAC listings. MCG predicts that this should reflects itself in annual growth of over 6%, well beyond 2028.
According to Chris Mouchabhani, Managing Partner at M Capital Group, “Despite all economic scenarios that one may consider, beyond overall economic shocks, medical technology should remain one of the most promising and robust sectors over the short to medium term and well beyond 2028.”
There is a movement towards home-based care for the elderly, next generation scanning and MRI devices, wearable technology, artificial intelligence incorporation, and online connectivity. Experts also see a focus on predictive, preventive, personalized, participatory, and precision medicine, with rising levels of integration of home care and technological innovation.
The average cost of treatment has been rising across the board, creating additional financial burdens to governments, healthcare providers and insurance companies. According to MCG, cost-per-inpatient-stay in the United States alone rose on average annually by over 13% between 2014 to 2021, leading MedTech to focus research efforts on optimized medical equipment at lower price points, whilst emphasizing portability and ease of use. Namely, 46% of the 1,008 medical technology companies in the 2021 MedTech Innovator (“MTI”) database are focusing on prevention, wellness, detection, or diagnosis, signaling a clear push for preventive care to also tackle costs.
In addition, there has also been a lasting impact on consumer and medical demand for home care, supported by the pandemic. Lockdowns, closure of care facilities, and healthcare systems subjected to capacity pressure, accelerated demand away from traditional inpatient care. Now, outpatient care solutions are driving industry production, with nearly 70% of recent diagnostics start-up companies producing products in areas such as ambulatory clinics, at-home care, and self-administered diagnostics.
Defecation
Normal defecation begins with movement in the left colon, moving stool toward the anus. When stool reaches the rectum, the distention causes relaxation of the internal sphincter and an awareness of the need to defecate. At the time of defecation, the external sphincter relaxes, and abdominal muscles contract, increasing intrarectal pressure and forcing the stool out
The Valsalva maneuver exerts pressure to expel faeces through a voluntary contraction of the abdominal muscles while maintaining forced expiration against a closed airway. Patients with cardiovascular disease, glaucoma, increased intracranial pressure, or a new surgical wound are at greater risk for cardiac dysrhythmias and elevated blood pressure with the Valsalva maneuver and need to avoid straining to pass the stool.
Normal defecation is painless, resulting in passage of soft, formed stool
CONSTIPATION
Constipation is a symptom, not a disease. Improper diet, reduced fluid intake, lack of exercise, and certain medications can cause constipation. For example, patients receiving opiates for pain after surgery often require a stool softener or laxative to prevent constipation. The signs of constipation include infrequent bowel movements (less than every 3 days), difficulty passing stools, excessive straining, inability to defecate at will, and hard feaces
IMPACTION
Fecal impaction results from unrelieved constipation. It is a collection of hardened feces wedged in the rectum that a person cannot expel. In cases of severe impaction the mass extends up into the sigmoid colon.
DIARRHEA
Diarrhea is an increase in the number of stools and the passage of liquid, unformed feces. It is associated with disorders affecting digestion, absorption, and secretion in the GI tract. Intestinal contents pass through the small and large intestine too quickly to allow for the usual absorption of fluid and nutrients. Irritation within the colon results in increased mucus secretion. As a result, feces become watery, and the patient is unable to control the urge to defecate. Normally an anal bag is safe and effective in long-term treatment of patients with fecal incontinence at home, in hospice, or in the hospital. Fecal incontinence is expensive and a potentially dangerous condition in terms of contamination and risk of skin ulceration
HEMORRHOIDS
Hemorrhoids are dilated, engorged veins in the lining of the rectum. They are either external or internal.
FLATULENCE
As gas accumulates in the lumen of the intestines, the bowel wall stretches and distends (flatulence). It is a common cause of abdominal fullness, pain, and cramping. Normally intestinal gas escapes through the mouth (belching) or the anus (passing of flatus)
FECAL INCONTINENCE
Fecal incontinence is the inability to control passage of feces and gas from the anus. Incontinence harms a patient’s body image
PREPARATION AND GIVING OF LAXATIVESACCORDING TO POTTER AND PERRY,
An enema is the instillation of a solution into the rectum and sig
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Antibiotic Stewardship by Anushri Srivastava.pptxAnushriSrivastav
Stewardship is the act of taking good care of something.
Antimicrobial stewardship is a coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics), improves patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance, and decreases the spread of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms.
WHO launched the Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) in 2015 to fill knowledge gaps and inform strategies at all levels.
ACCORDING TO apic.org,
Antimicrobial stewardship is a coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics), improves patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance, and decreases the spread of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms.
ACCORDING TO pewtrusts.org,
Antibiotic stewardship refers to efforts in doctors’ offices, hospitals, long term care facilities, and other health care settings to ensure that antibiotics are used only when necessary and appropriate
According to WHO,
Antimicrobial stewardship is a systematic approach to educate and support health care professionals to follow evidence-based guidelines for prescribing and administering antimicrobials
In 1996, John McGowan and Dale Gerding first applied the term antimicrobial stewardship, where they suggested a causal association between antimicrobial agent use and resistance. They also focused on the urgency of large-scale controlled trials of antimicrobial-use regulation employing sophisticated epidemiologic methods, molecular typing, and precise resistance mechanism analysis.
Antimicrobial Stewardship(AMS) refers to the optimal selection, dosing, and duration of antimicrobial treatment resulting in the best clinical outcome with minimal side effects to the patients and minimal impact on subsequent resistance.
According to the 2019 report, in the US, more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur each year, and more than 35000 people die. In addition to this, it also mentioned that 223,900 cases of Clostridoides difficile occurred in 2017, of which 12800 people died. The report did not include viruses or parasites
VISION
Being proactive
Supporting optimal animal and human health
Exploring ways to reduce overall use of antimicrobials
Using the drugs that prevent and treat disease by killing microscopic organisms in a responsible way
GOAL
to prevent the generation and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Doing so will preserve the effectiveness of these drugs in animals and humans for years to come.
being to preserve human and animal health and the effectiveness of antimicrobial medications.
to implement a multidisciplinary approach in assembling a stewardship team to include an infectious disease physician, a clinical pharmacist with infectious diseases training, infection preventionist, and a close collaboration with the staff in the clinical microbiology laboratory
to prevent antimicrobial overuse, misuse and abuse.
to minimize the developme
1. RECOMMENDATIONS Institute of Medicine
SEPTEMBER 2015 • IMPROVING DIAGNOSIS IN HEALTH CARE
Goal 1: Facilitate more effective teamwork in the diagnostic process among health care professionals, patients, and their families
In recognition that the diagnostic process is a dynamic team-based activ-
ity, health care organizations should ensure that health care profession-
als have the appropriate knowledge, skills, resources, and support to
engage in teamwork in the diagnostic process. To accomplish this, they
should facilitate and support:
• Interprofessional and intraprofessional teamwork in the diagnostic
process.
• Collaboration among pathologists, radiologists, other diagnosticians,
and treating health care professionals to improve diagnostic testing
processes.
Health care professionals and organizations should partner with patients
and their families as diagnostic team members and facilitate patient and
family engagement in the diagnostic process, aligned with their needs,
values, and preferences. To accomplish this, they should:
• Provide patients with opportunities to learn about the diagnostic
process.
• Create environments in which patients and their families are comfort-
able engaging in the diagnostic process and sharing feedback and
concerns about diagnostic errors and near misses.
• Ensure patient access to electronic health records (EHRs), includ-
ing clinical notes and diagnostic testing results, to facilitate patient
engagement in the diagnostic process and patient review of health
records for accuracy.
• Identify opportunities to include patients and their families in efforts to
improve the diagnostic process by learning from diagnostic errors and
near misses.
RECOMMENDATION 1A RECOMMENDATION 1B
Goal 2: Enhance health care professional education and training in the diagnostic process
Educators should ensure that curricula and training programs across the
career trajectory:
• Address performance in the diagnostic process, including areas such
as clinical reasoning; teamwork; communication with patients, their
families, and other health care professionals; appropriate use of diag-
nostic tests and the application of these results on subsequent decision
making; and use of health information technology (IT).
• Employ educational approaches that are aligned with evidence from
the learning sciences.
Health care professional certification and accreditation organizations
should ensure that health care professionals have and maintain the com-
petencies needed for effective performance in the diagnostic process,
including the areas listed in Recommendation 2A.
RECOMMENDATION 2A RECOMMENDATION 2B
Goal 3: Ensure that health information technologies support patients and health care professionals in the diagnostic process
Health IT vendors and the Office of the Na-
tional Coordinator for Health Information Tech-
nology (ONC) should work together with users
to ensure that health IT used in the diagnostic
process demonstrates usability, incorporates
human factors knowledge, integrates mea-
surement capability, fits well within clinical
workflow, provides clinical decision support,
and facilitates the timely flow of information
among patients and health care professionals
involved in the diagnostic process.
ONC should require health IT vendors to meet
standards for interoperability among different
health IT systems to support effective, efficient,
and structured flow of patient information
across care settings to facilitate the diagnostic
process by 2018.
The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS) should require
health IT vendors to:
• Routinely submit their products for inde-
pendent evaluation and notify users about
potential adverse effects on the diagnostic
process related to the use of their products.
• Permit and support the free exchange of
information about real-time user experiences
with health IT design and implementation
that adversely affect the diagnostic process.
RECOMMENDATION 3A RECOMMENDATION 3B RECOMMENDATION 3C
Goal 4: Develop and deploy approaches to identify, learn from, and reduce diagnostic errors and near misses in clinical practice
Accreditation organizations and the
Medicare conditions of participa-
tion should require that health
care organizations have programs
in place to monitor the diagnostic
process and identify, learn from,
and reduce diagnostic errors and
near misses in a timely fashion.
Proven approaches should be
incorporated into updates of these
requirements.
Health care organizations should:
• Monitor the diagnostic process
and identify, learn from, and
reduce diagnostic errors and near
misses as a component of their
research, quality improvement,
and patient safety programs.
• Implement procedures and prac-
tices to provide systematic feed-
back on diagnostic performance
to individual health care profes-
sionals, care teams, and clinical
and organizational leaders.
HHS should provide funding for
a designated subset of health
care systems to conduct routine
postmortem examinations on a
representative sample of patient
deaths.
Health care professional societies
should identify opportunities to
improve accurate and timely diag-
noses and reduce diagnostic errors
in their specialties.
RECOMMENDATION 4A RECOMMENDATION 4B RECOMMENDATION 4C RECOMMENDATION 4D
2. Goal 5: Establish a work system and culture that supports the diagnostic process and improvements in diagnostic performance
Health care organizations should:
• Adopt policies and practices that promote a non-punitive culture that values open discussion and feedback on diagnostic performance.
• Design the work system in which the diagnostic process occurs to support the work and activities of patients, their families, and health care profes-
sionals and to facilitate accurate and timely diagnoses.
• Develop and implement processes to ensure effective and timely communication between diagnostic testing health care professionals and treating
health care professionals across all health care delivery settings.
RECOMMENDATION 5
Goal 6: Develop a reporting environment and medical liability system that facilitates improved diagnosis by learning from diagnostic
errors and near misses
The Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) or
other or other appropriate agen-
cies or independent entities should
encourage and facilitate the volun-
tary reporting of diagnostic errors
and near misses.
AHRQ should evaluate the effec-
tiveness of patient safety organiza-
tions (PSOs) as a major mecha-
nism for voluntary reporting and
learning from these events and
modify the PSO common formats
for reporting of patient safety
events to include diagnostic errors
and near misses.
States, in collaboration with other
stakeholders (health care organi-
zations, professional liability in-
surance carriers, state and federal
policy makers, patient advocacy
groups, and medical malpractice
plaintiff and defense attorneys),
should promote a legal environ-
ment that facilitates the timely
identification, disclosure, and
learning from diagnostic errors.
Specifically, they should:
• Encourage the adoption of
communication and resolution
programs (CRPs) with legal
protections for disclosures and
apologies under state laws.
• Conduct demonstration projects
of alternative approaches to the
resolution of medical injuries,
including administrative health
courts and safe harbors for
adherence to evidenced-based
clinical practice guidelines.
Professional liability insurance car-
riers and captive insurers should
collaborate with health care
professionals on opportunities to
improve diagnostic performance
through education, training, and
practice improvement approaches
and increase participation in such
programs.
RECOMMENDATION 6A RECOMMENDATION 6B RECOMMENDATION 6C RECOMMENDATION 6D
Goal 7: Design a payment and care delivery environment that supports the diagnostic process
As long as fee schedules remain a predominant mechanism for deter-
mining clinician payment, the Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services
(CMS) and other payers should:
• Create current procedural terminology (CPT) codes and provide cover-
age for additional evaluation and management activities not currently
coded or covered, including time spent by pathologists, radiologists,
and other clinicians in advising ordering clinicians on the selection,
use, and interpretation of diagnostic testing for specific patients.
• Reorient relative value fees to more appropriately value the time spent
with patients in evaluation and management activities.
• Modify documentation guidelines for evaluation and management ser-
vices to improve the accuracy of information in the EHR and to support
decision making in the diagnostic process.
CMS and other payers should assess the impact of payment and care
delivery models on the diagnostic process, the occurrence of diagnostic
errors, and learning from these errors.
RECOMMENDATION 7A RECOMMENDATION 7B
Goal 8: Provide dedicated funding for research on the diagnostic process and diagnostic errors
Federal agencies, including HHS, the U.S. Department of Veterans Af-
fairs, and the United States Department of Defense, should:
• Develop a coordinated research agenda on the diagnostic process and
diagnostic errors by the end of 2016.
• Commit dedicated funding to implementing this research agenda.
The federal government should pursue and encourage opportunities for
public–private partnerships among a broad range of stakeholders, such
as the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, foundations, the
diagnostic testing and health IT industries, health care organizations,
and professional liability insurers to support research on the diagnostic
process and diagnostic errors.
RECOMMENDATION 8A RECOMMENDATION 8B
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