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Retention of Stroke Education Provided during Hospitalization: Does Provision of Required Education Increase Stroke Knowledge?
Discussion: While stroke education is required during hospitalization, its ability to produce retention may be poor. We propose study of test-enhanced learning methods through the Targeted Education in Stroke Trial (TEST) to examine the effect of novel teaching methods on patient/caregiver knowledge retention.Intervent Neurol 2018;7:471 –478
Source: Interventional Neurology - July 26, 2018 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Prognostic factors for discharge destination after acute stroke: a comprehensive literature review.
Conclusion: Patient initial medical care, age and sex, neurological and medical complications and environmental/socio-economic factors should be considered in the decision-making process for discharge destination. [Box: see text]. PMID: 25250810 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - September 24, 2014 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Van der Cruyssen K, Vereeck L, Saeys W, Remmen R Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

Health disparities and stroke: the influence of insurance status on the prevalence of patient safety indicators and hospital-acquired conditions.
CONCLUSIONS Insurance status is an independent predictor of patient safety events after stroke. Private insurance is associated with lower mortality, shorter lengths of stay, and improved clinical outcomes. PMID: 25658779 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Neurosurgery - February 6, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Fargen KM, Neal D, Blackburn SL, Hoh BL, Rahman M Tags: J Neurosurg Source Type: research

National trends in utilization of Intravenous thrombolysis and endovascular treatment in acute ischemic stroke (P5.044)
Conclusions:At national level, use of intravenous rt-PA is increasing among all groups proving positive impact of the efforts by organizations and patient education. Given endovascular treatment has now become standard of care; we need to create stroke care models to target this most vulnerable subset of patient population including Hispanics, patients residing in rural areas and insurance status like Medicaid or self-pay status to provide them similar and equal opportunities of treatment as others.Disclosure: Dr. Khatri has nothing to disclose. Dr. Afzal has nothing to disclose. Dr. Qureshi has nothing to disclose. Dr. Qu...
Source: Neurology - April 17, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Khatri, R., rauf-afzal, m., Qureshi, M. A., Qureshi, I. A., Maud, A., Rodriguez, G., Cruz-Flores, S. Tags: Neurocritical Care: Ischemic Injury Source Type: research

Factors Associated With Length of Hospitalization in Patients Admitted With Transient Ischemic Attack in United States Clinical Sciences
Conclusions— Approximately 75% of patients admitted with transient ischemic attack stay in the hospital for ≥2 days, with the most important determinants being pre-existing medical comorbidities. Longer duration of hospital stay is associated with 2- to 5-fold greater hospitalization charges.
Source: Stroke - May 24, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Qureshi, A. I., Adil, M. M., Zacharatos, H., Suri, M. F. K. Tags: Transient Ischemic Attacks Clinical Sciences Source Type: research

Assessing Providers Antipsychotics Prescription Habits in Long Term Care: A QI Study
Inappropriate use of antipsychotics is associated with increased adverse outcomes of death, heart attack, stroke, falls, and hospitalizations. The national goal established by Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is to reduce the percentage of long-stay nursing home residents who receive antipsychotic medications by 15% per year. Using the CMS quality measure based on Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 shows that at Mayo's teaching nursing home (Samaritan Bethany) 10.2% residents were on antipsychotics in the last quarter of 2012 and 12.1% in the first quarter of 2013.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - February 10, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Sandeep R. Pagali, Sandeep R. Pagali, Brandon P. Verdoorn, Eric G. Tangalos Tags: Poster Abstracts Source Type: research

Taking Risk: Early Results From Teaching Hospitals’ Participation in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative
The authors describe observations from the 27 teaching hospitals constituting the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) cohort in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative. CMMI introduced BPCI in August 2011 and selected the first set of participants in January 2013. BPCI participants enter into Medicare payment arrangements for episodes of care for which they take financial risk. The first round of participants entered risk agreements on October 1, 2013 and January 1, 2014. In April 2014, CMMI selected additional participants who started takin...
Source: Academic Medicine - June 30, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Articles Source Type: research

COVID-19 Exposed the Faults in America ’s Elder Care System. This Is Our Best Shot to Fix Them
For the American public, one of the first signs of the COVID-19 pandemic to come was a tragedy at a nursing home near Seattle. On Feb. 29, 2020, officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Washington State announced the U.S. had its first outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Three people in the area had tested positive the day before; two of them were associated with Life Care Center of Kirkland, and officials expected more to follow soon. When asked what steps the nursing home could take to control the spread, Dr. Jeff Duchin, health officer for Seattle and King County, said he was working w...
Source: TIME: Health - June 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abigail Abrams Tags: Uncategorized Aging COVID-19 feature franchise Magazine TIME for Health Source Type: news

America Has No Way to Take Care of Mentally Ill People
With evermore unhoused people on the streets of our biggest cities, and publicized subway crimes in New York, mental health treatment is again in the news. Politicians speak about “caring” for the mentally ill in a new way, which turns out to be the old way—putting them away. The mention of involuntary confinement, predictably, sparks anxiety and controversy, giving rise to the question of whom this policy is meant to help: the people taken away or the rest of population, those shopping, jogging, carrying groceries home, who, presumably, will no longer be bothered by the inconvenient reality of a person s...
Source: TIME: Health - March 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mona Simpson Tags: Uncategorized freelance Psychology Source Type: news