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Honey, Sweetie, Dearie: The Perils of Elderspeak

Health Leaders | Nursing

"It's communication to older adults that sounds like baby talk," said Clarissa Shaw, a dementia care researcher at the University of Iowa College of Nursing and a co-author of a recent article that helps researchers document its use. "It It arises from an ageist assumption of frailty, incompetence, and dependence."

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How Nurse Practitioners Are Filling Gaps in Primary Care

Post University

By the mid-1990s, Medicare also approved reimbursement for NP-provided services. Models of Collaboration in Primary Care Settings Multiple healthcare providers work together in collaborative care models, striving to improve patient experiences and treatment outcomes.

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Clinical Documentation Integrity: Why It’s Crucial for Improving Revenue Cycle Management

Relias

Many participants have a role to play in the revenue cycle, and at each stage they must employ their specialized knowledge of how that patient interaction and service is documented in the patient’s health record. How Clinical Documentation Integrity Affects Revenue. CDI Affects More Than Financial Health.

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How to Keep Patients Satisfied — and Raise Your Patient Satisfaction Scores

Relias

Improving patient experience scores is a goal for many healthcare organizations — and for good reason. Patient experience is directly tied to patient retention, reimbursement, and in many cases, better patient outcomes. Does patient satisfaction equal better health outcomes?

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Medicare Care Compare: Publicly reported performance measures

American Nurse

Takeaways: To help patients and their families make informed decisions about choosing health care, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publicly reports quality performance measures. In addition to informing patients, public reporting can drive providers to improve performance.

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Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

Relias

According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), care coordination is “the deliberate organization of patient care activities between two or more participants (including the patient) involved in a patient’s care to facilitate the appropriate delivery of health care services.”

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The Value of Nursing

American Nurse

Improving health outcomes relative to the cost of care has been embraced by interested parties across the healthcare system, including patients, providers, health plans, employers, and government organizations. The concept of value, which was introduced in 2006, aligns care with how patients experience their health (Teisberg et al.,