by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 8, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
This is an elderly woman who developed a confirmed Influenza A infection back in February. Her husband says that these painful leg lesions began almost immediately after starting Oseltamivir (Tamiflu®). She was referred to me 5 months later, and the husband was...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 4, 2018 | Do the Right Thing: Thoughts on Quality, Don't Miss This
A recent National Academy of Medicine discussion paper reviews the concept of “team-based healthcare” and the way in which it is associated with both improved patient outcomes and clinician well-being. According to the authors, teamwork must,...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 3, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Nutrition & Wound Healing, Quality Payment Program
What scares me is the fact that I didn’t really pay attention to this until I started developing quality measures for wound care. But now that I’m paying attention, the extent of it is terrifying. In one day I saw three patients who were starving, two of whom had on...