Feds: Emergency department visits increase with age of nursing home residents
While residents aged 60 to 69 were found to account for 2% of ED visits, those aged 90 and older accounted for 24% of visits, according to new data.
Emergency Department
Same-day physician access leads to fewer resident hospitalizations, ED visits
Surveyed facilities with same-day physician access had 21% lower hospitalization rates. Urgent access to nurse practitioners is also linked to fewer transfers.
Overtreatment lands thousands of U.S. diabetes patients in the hospital
Too many older, clinically complex patients with diabetes end up in U.S. emergency rooms due to overtreatment, according to a Mayo Clinic study published this month.
Stealth heart attack symptoms often ignored, delaying care
Mild, slow heart attack symptoms may sneak up on residents with multiple health problems, delaying time to treatment by five hours.
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Opioid misuse sending more older adults to emergency departments
Emergency room visits by seniors who have misused opioids more than tripled between 2006 and 2014, according to a new study.
Emergency department efficiency vs. customer service
In healthcare, not all “wasted time” is truly wasted. In fact, some of the most important aspects of healthcare are less than 100% efficient. Of course, we can and should strive for greater efficiency. But we also must understand that absolute efficiency would eliminate the human elements of care.
Strong professional relationships could reduce unnecessary hospitalizations from nursing homes, study suggests
Registered nurses need strong and collegial relationships with their counterparts at a hospital in order to confidently refer nursing home residents to the emergency department, according to findings recently published in the Open Journal of Nursing.
T-System releases flu doc templates
T-System Inc. renewed its “winter gift” of T Sheets® flu documentation templates free of charge to all hospitals and healthcare providers. Providers can download the free documentation tool on T-System’s website.
Engaging ER physicians the way to go for long-term care
Healthcare journalists may have fallen inadvertently into triggering a Pavlovian response in our readers: We write “hospital readmissions” and you click.
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