Home discharge and management in severe DBP patient

Home discharge and management in severe DBP patient

Bronchopumonary dysplasia( DBP) is the most common sequelae related to very low birth weight, has a multifactorial aetiology and first characterized by Northway(1967), now unlike the original form of the disease, new form often develops in preterm newborns who may have needed little or no ventilator support, and have had low inspired oxygen concentration during early postnatal days. “New” DBP a...

Planning for the Discharge, not for Patient Self-Management at Home – An Observational and Interview Study of Hospital Discharge

Introduction and objective Despite recent interest in care transitions, little is known about how patients are prepared for the self-management tasks following the hospitalization. The objective of the study was to explore how discharge information is prepared and provided to patients in the transition from hospital to home. Method The discharge process at three hospitals in Sweden was observ...

Remote Patient Management for Home Dialysis Patients

Eric L. Wallace, Mitchell H. Rosner, Mark Dominik Alscher, Claus Peter Schmitt, Arsh Jain, Francesca Tentori, Catherine Firanek, Karen S. Rheuban, Jose Florez-Arango, Vivekanand Jha, Marjorie Foo, Koen de Blok, Mark R. Marshall, Mauricio Sanabria, Timothy Kudelka and James A. Sloand Division of Nephrology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA; Division of Nephrology, Un...

MANAGEMENT OF SEVERE HYPERKALEMIA

Implementing effective care management in the patient-centered medical home.

BACKGROUND There is growing evidence that practice-based care management can improve clinical quality and reduce costly healthcare utilization. OBJECTIVES To explore how a disparate group of patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) embedded care management in their team care environment to identify best practices. STUDY DESIGN A positive deviance approach was used to contrast care management ...