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Ep.6: How to Build the Right Environment for Client Referral Growth

Home Care Pulse

. <Laugh> and we were able to think about what, what does it mean for in-home care? And for, for me, and, and specifically Cheryl and I have created a paradigm we’ve coin to term total patient care model. And what we mean about that is you can visualize a rainbow. That’s where the disconnect happens.

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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

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Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy “I'm present. By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) published its “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (8),” which was updated in 2010 and 2015 (11). Kollas MD, Terri A. Uh … I do have a conflict.

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Day in the life of a Vascular Nurse Practitioner

The Nurse Break

NP’s are able to practise autonomously – meaning they do not need direct medical supervision to make decisions about patient care, which includes initiation of therapy. Patient Care and Case Management As a Nurse Practitioner, you’re involved in patient case management.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

Michelle Cone ( 03:28 ): So, you know, at its most basic level, it really allows home care agencies to monitor and promote the quality of care that they provide to their clients with actual quantitative data. And Laura dropped so many nuggets during that little presentation piece right there.

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Opioid Equianalgesic Tables are Broken

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The 2010 table is the Classic EAT, the 2018 table is the DOC2 EAT. To the best of my knowledge, the DOC2 EAT exists largely to better account for these ratios going from IV hydromorphone, considering that Reddy et al is undoubtedly the best/biggest real-patient study looking at this very relevant real-life clinical question. (It

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Ep.13: How Becoming an Accredited Organization will Help you Build More Partnerships and Increase Referrals

Home Care Pulse

So before we became accredited by, with the Joint Commission in their home care program, we were already receiving referrals from local physicians, nurses, social workers, discharge planners, at a number of different healthcare systems in the area. You know, we improve the quality of patient care by, by following that patient.