Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The C-MORE/PHOSP-COVID collaborative group published their results in an important journal—called The Lancet Respiratory Medicine They screened nearly 3000 patients and found about 250 patients who had been admitted and then discharged for COVID-19. Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication.

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Discharges Admissions Hospital Collaboration 291

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Old-fashioned doctors routinely seek all of the patient's previous medical records, not just the discharge summaries. We are lucky to work at a time when a review of a discharge summary, lab findings, and radiology results can usually give you a pretty perfect sense of what has happened and what remains necessary.

Physical Exams 296

Physical Exams Tests Diagnostics Discharges 296

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Imagine if the same virtual nurse who cared for you in the hospital performed a virtual visit after discharge or was your hospital to home nurse and connected with your primary care provider for a warm handoff. It can also reduce the workload at the bedside by having remote nurses do admissions, discharges, and answer questions virtually.

Discharges 238

Discharges Hospital Transfers Patient Satisfaction 238

EvidenceCare

MARCH 18, 2025

Dr. Wilcoxs journey into digital health started with a simple observation: patients in the post-anesthesia care unit were experiencing unnecessary delays in discharge, leading to longer hospital stays. The idea of integrating multiple solutions into one seamless experience is something I hadnt seen as much in the past, Wilcox shared.

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Hospital Discharges Appointments Patient Safety 130

Scrubs

APRIL 4, 2023

The man was then discharged from the hospital and put in the county jail. Martinek told the officers that handcuffing the patient to the bed was unsafe, so they put him in a four-point restraint instead. But the patient kicked the nurse in the stomach while she was attempting to insert a catheter.

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Discharges Hospital 264

KevinMD.com

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Initial testing and symptoms suggested a concussion, leading to discharge. A nurse practitioner (NP) in urgent care saw a patient with a severe headache following a fall. However, when the patient’s worsening condition later revealed an elevated white blood cell count, they were rushed for further evaluationbut it was too late.

Insurance 70

Insurance Discharges Tests 70

Scrubs

JULY 23, 2023

Took longer to discharge the patient than it did to treat him. The parents even insisted that the surgeon wear a certain crystal as a necklace while performing the cannulation! Kim Gutridge Zornow 4. A Wiccan altar set up in a room in the ER. The patient was being seen for a broken toe. Carrie Bittay-D’Intino 5. Bob Hayward 6.

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Hospital Discharges 246

Connect Care Bytes Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Integrated Discharge Planning 'Traffic Lights' The Rapid Rounds patient list includes a "Readiness" column with 'traffic light' symbols indicative of a patient's readiness for discharge. Demo: Discharge Readiness Integrated Planner Manual: Transition Planning

Discharges 40

Discharges Huddles/Rounds Documentation Communication 40

Scrubs

JULY 31, 2023

Then, when it comes time for discharge, the patient or their caregiver isn’t surprised by the restrictions that some meds may have. We may take it for granted that they understand their meds, particularly if they’ve been taking them for a while, but some questioning could reveal that they aren’t quite as knowledgeable as they should be.

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Discharges Hospital Medication 206

Connect Care Bytes Blog

JULY 26, 2024

Enhancements to Core Admission and Discharge Navigators Connect Care uses "Navigators" to help prescribers complete complex workflows when key tasks are easy to forget. Core "Admission" and "Discharge" navigators organize review (e.g., discharge summary) steps that must be completed in a specific order.

Discharges 40

Discharges Admissions Documentation Medication 40

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Yet, every time they would come into the hospital, we would discharge them with the same plan. I saw the same people over and over, but there were loads of services for people experiencing homelessness and addiction issues. There was a disconnect between what we were saying and the person,” she said of her experience.

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Acute Care Critical Thinking Discharges Follow-Up 261

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We wait to be discharged. ” If you’re waiting to be discharged from the hospital, what time you’ll be able to leave is anyone’s guess since one hand often doesn’t know what the other hand is doing. We wait to see the provider. We’re stalled in the emergency room waiting area.

Patient Experience 52

Patient Experience Discharges Physical Exams Hospital 52

Scrubs

MARCH 7, 2023

When Small’s babies were discharged from the hospital several months after she gave birth, Mullen asked if they could exchange numbers, and the two have been a part of each other’s lives ever since. Fortunately, Katrina Mullen was the nurse assigned to look after Small’s children.

Discharges 290

Discharges Hospital Huddles/Rounds Scheduling 290

Sensible Medicine

MAY 28, 2024

Fortunately, she was discharged the next morning. After COVID lockdowns, she struggled to readjust to in-person schooling. After six months of taking antidepressants, Sarah ended up in an emergency room. She had overdosed on her antidepressants. She didn’t intend to harm herself. She thought taking more medicine might help.

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Follow-Up Discharges Appointments Tests 360

The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

But in 2012, neuroscientist Maiken Nedergaard, identified a unique network of delicate channels (tiny passages alongside blood vessels) inside the brain that collect and discharge brain metabolites and waste materials including amyloid. This system, or ultimate brainwasher as some labeled it, was formally titled the glymphatic system.

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Discharges Medication 70

Sensible Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

She is discharged on dual-antiplatelet agents and an increased statin dose. The hospital does an excellent job. She has the appropriate imaging (brain and major vessels), lab work, and echocardiogram. By the time she leaves the hospital, she has no residual symptoms.

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Follow-Up Tests Hospital Discharges 262

Scrubs

MARCH 9, 2023

Madera Community Hospital is dedicated to continuing services to our patients that are in the hospital and will ensure that they are safely transferred or discharged,” the hospital said in a statement earlier this year.

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Hospital Billing Discharges Transfers 244

Scrubs

MARCH 15, 2023

UC San Diego Health carefully tracks bed availability, patient discharges, planned procedures, supplies and other data to make timely decisions to expedite bed availability.” The organization also noted that it “is taking every measure possible to care for these patients and attend to their comfort and needs.

Discharges 242

Discharges Patient Safety Hospital Medication 242

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

as more patients get discharged to hospital-for-home and more acute-care workflows that fall on burdened caregivers (that is, family members and friends). Here is ECRI’s list of patient safety concerns a decade ago in 2015. Many more of these have to do with “technology” and devices (e.g.,

Patient Safety 77

Patient Safety Discharges Diagnostics Acute Care 77

Scrubs

APRIL 20, 2023

Having E-RNs to do discharge planning, do rounds with patients, and ensure patients understand their medication goes a long way to preventing readmission and improving the health of the population we serve.” They can walk down the hall and sense when things are not right.

Discharges 242

Discharges Huddles/Rounds Hospital Medication 242

EvidenceCare

MARCH 11, 2024

GMLOS is calculated by taking the nth root of the product of the length of stay for a series of discharges, where ‘n’ represents the number of discharges. Unlike GMLOS, ALOS is calculated by adding the total number of stay days for a group of patients and dividing by the number of discharges or admissions.

Discharges 130

Discharges Admissions Hospital Patient Satisfaction 130

Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 15, 2020

By Stephan Herron, CEO and president, Scriptel Corporation For decades, healthcare providers have relied on putting pen to paper when it comes to signing off on prescriptions, discharge orders or even referrals to specialists. For […].

Discharges 103

Discharges 103

Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 9, 2019

Healthcare organizations know just how important it is to comply with the HIPAA Privacy Rule to protect sensitive and unstructured data such as patient records, scripts, discharge summaries, medical forms, authorizations, prescriptions, and insurance claims. By Paul Banco, CEO, etherFAX.

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HIPAA Discharges Patient Records Insurance 107

Scrubs

AUGUST 9, 2023

This led to better management of patients’ pain, and earlier discharge from the ICU. Chris Cowal , a nursing student at American Sentinel University, looked to current clinical literature to implement a better pain assessment tool in the critical care units at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, New York.

Communication 246

Communication Triage Patient Care Discharges 246

Scrubs

AUGUST 27, 2023

Tang also worries that inflation will make it harder to discharge patients from hospitals as temperatures drop. “As

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Billing Hospital Discharges Admissions 246

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Beginning with volume, or utilization, the second table shows that hospital discharges fell by nearly 13% year-over-year in January 2021, emergency department visits dropped nearly 25%, and operating room minutes, 17%. A major contributor to hospitals’ fiscal declines came via expenses rising double-digits per discharge: 25.4%

Hospital 86

Hospital Discharges Outpatient Care 86

Scrubs

AUGUST 11, 2023

When she was finally discharged, her medical bills totaled nearly half a million dollars. She soon underwent heart bypass surgery. One valve needed to be replaced and one repaired. Overall, she spent a month in the hospital recovering from surgery.

Billing 245

Billing Medication Insurance Hospital 245

Minority Nurse

MAY 8, 2024

In this role, burn nurses can better assess the needs of their patients post-discharge, anticipating potential problems like lack of transportation, living conditions without heat or electricity, or unstable food resources.

Discharges 105

Discharges Certification Tests Collaboration 105

Scrubs

AUGUST 3, 2023

If a patient has recently been discharged from hospital, she’ll obtain the hospital records because she knows I’ll want to see them. Robert Rowley, MD, a practicing family physician with Hayward Family Care in the San Francisco Bay area, says he appreciates his nurse because she goes farther than that.

Vital Signs 246

Vital Signs Hospital Discharges Huddles/Rounds 246

Medical Economics

APRIL 17, 2025

A University of Michigan program using digital monitoring slashed hospitalizations by nearly 60%, offering a model for scalable post-discharge care.

Admissions 59

Admissions Hospital Discharges 59

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The C-MORE/PHOSP-COVID collaborative group published their results in an important journal—called The Lancet Respiratory Medicine They screened nearly 3000 patients and found about 250 patients who had been admitted and then discharged for COVID-19. Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication.

Discharges 130

Discharges Admissions Hospital Collaboration 130

Minority Nurse

JANUARY 25, 2024

I often say that in an outpatient setting an infusion nurse operates in five areas of nursing serving as an admissions nurse , case manager, infusion nurse, charge nurse, and discharge nurse. Witnessing patients’ journeys from diagnosis to healing at discharge is incredibly fulfilling.

Discharges 105

Discharges Best Practices Admissions Patient Care 105

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

George tells us about being discharged home after dealing with heart failure in the hospital. Take George and Audrey. See that their home is a one-story design in the connected health neighborhood, a good choice for a couple seeking to age well in their home without stairs.

Discharges 144

Discharges Hospital Follow-Up Vital Signs 144

EvidenceCare

APRIL 16, 2024

A compliance measure calculates the percentage of patients discharged in the appropriate inpatient or observation bed status—a determinant that can result in major financial repercussions if misclassified. The goal for the compliance measure is to have over 95% of discharges compliant.

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Documentation Admissions Discharges Billing 130

Emerging RN Leader

JUNE 7, 2023

With increasing patient volumes, throughput within a facility can be a major pain point in facilitating timely admissions, discharges, and transfers. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Improving communication across departments is often a key concern when discussing conflict areas in leadership programs.

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Communication Discharges Transfers Admissions 78

Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

Advancing these efforts, the BPCI Advanced model introduces a consolidated retrospective payment system that addresses services within a 90-day period following discharge or outpatient procedures. It enhances coordination between providers while motivating them toward comprehensive management strategies focused on complete patient care.

Patient Experience 52

Patient Experience Acute Care Discharges Collaboration 52

EvidenceCare

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

We’re still facing the same types of denials, especially with short stays where payers push back post-discharge.” Be on the lookout for post discharge audits as the Medicare Advantage plans do not have to follow the two-midnight presumption.

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Documentation Admissions Hospital Discharges 130