Becker's Hospital Review

Patient Safety Tool: Health Assessments in Primary Care

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers complimentary resources to help providers improve the quality of care provided at their healthcare facilities. Health Assessments in Primary Care: ...
Forbes

Most Clinicians Fail To Consider Patients’ Self-Assessments, Study Says

BIRMINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 14: A doctor at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham does his rounds on the wards on June 14, 2006 in Birmingham, England. Senior managers of the NHS have said ...
Firehouse

Simplifying Prehospital Agitation Management with the Sedation Assessment Tool

Janine E. Curcio and Dr. Robert Lowe provide a seven-point scale based on speech and responsiveness to decide whether or not to use sedation for an agitated patient. Managing an agitated or aggressive ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Primary Care Visit Cadence and Hospital Admissions in High-Risk Patients

Patients with congestive heart failure and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who had more quarterly primary care visits had lower rates of hospitalizations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Patient-reported symptom assessments and premature chemotherapy discontinuation in patients with gastrointestinal cancers.

Who stays engaged? Factors influencing compliance in an ePRO-based remote symptom monitoring program. Fine-Gray model of three-month non-tolerance-related discontinuation predicted by the number of ...