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Don’t discount discharge planning during pandemic
Publish date: August 7, 2020
Attention to discharge is essential for maintaining staff and patient safety, especially in response to COVID-19.
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Hospital vs. outpatient management comparable for elderly syncope patients
Publish date: August 4, 2020
Is there a difference in risk of post-ED serious adverse events at 30 days in older adults with unexplained syncope when managed as an outpatient versus with hospitalization?
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Continuity rules
Publish date: May 1, 2020
Hospital medicine outcomes are often hampered by suboptimal continuity of care.
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Medicare beneficiaries get few home health visits after ICU stay
Publish date: February 23, 2020
ORLANDO – The beneficiaries received an average of less than one visit per week in the month after ICU discharge, while a third received no visits.
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Medicare study evaluates impact of U.S. Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
Publish date: February 10, 2020
The proportion of care encounters studied that were preventable remains poorly understood.
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PACT-HF: Transitional care derives no overall benefit
Publish date: January 9, 2020
PHILADELPHIA – A trial of a postdischarge transitional care model found no improvement in outcomes overall, but showed that women responded more favorably than men.
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Hospitalists deal with patient discrimination
Publish date: January 7, 2020
The hospital is the only place some patients will find themselves in intimate interactions with people of other ethnicities.
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Benefiting from hospitalist-directed transfers
Publish date: November 27, 2019
It can help alleviate overcrowding – and much more.
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Effects of hospitalization on readmission rate
Publish date: September 25, 2019
Does the trauma of hospitalization increase the risk of 30-day readmission or ED visit rate?
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Exercise intervention reverses functional decline in elderly patients during acute hospitalization
Publish date: September 10, 2019
Can an individualized, multicomponent exercise program help reverse functional and cognitive decline in acutely hospitalized, elderly patients?
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