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Door-to-Doc Model Improves ED Flow, Cuts Costs
Hospital leaders looking to improve care delivery while lowering costs should focus their operations management efforts on the emergency department (ED) and should consider embracing the door-to-doc model (D2D) to match patient demand to services, beds and providers, according to a recent column published in Hospitals & Health Networks Daily.
For every 1% of patients who leave before a care provider sees them, EDs with volumes of 50,000 patients lose revenue worth approximately $500,000, according to the article.
The D2D model acknowledges that patient demand and variability are predictable. The model, therefore, bases staffing of more ED workers during the busy hours and fewer staff members during the slow times of the day.
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Source: FierceHealthcare
Understanding How Fitness Affects Digestive Diseases
April 18th 2025Exercise is a powerful modulator of gut health in patients with gastrointestinal (GI) conditions, as moderate activity can ease gut inflammation, reduce colorectal cancer risk, and relieve constipation, while intense workouts may backfire, causing reflux, GI bleeding, or gut barrier disruption.
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Personalized Care Key as Tirzepatide Use Expands Rapidly
April 15th 2025Using commercial insurance claims data and the US launch of tirzepatide as their dividing point, John Ostrominski, MD, Harvard Medical School, and his team studied trends in the use of both glucose-lowering and weight-lowering medications, comparing outcomes between adults with and without type 2 diabetes.
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Key Indicators of Myasthenia Gravis Disease Progression Reduced With Efgartigimod
April 18th 2025Research presented at the recent annual meeting of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy highlights outcomes among patients who have anti-acetylcholine receptor antibody-positive myasthenia gravis that include reduced exacerbations and need for immunoglobulin.
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