Transitions of Care
Quality
Continuity rules
Hospital medicine outcomes are often hampered by suboptimal continuity of care.
News
Medicare beneficiaries get few home health visits after ICU stay
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...
Public Policy
Medicare study evaluates impact of U.S. Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
The proportion of care encounters studied that were preventable remains poorly understood.
News
PACT-HF: Transitional care derives no overall benefit
PHILADELPHIA –
Practice Management
Hospitalists deal with patient discrimination
The hospital is the only place some patients will find themselves in intimate interactions with people of other ethnicities.
Quality
Benefiting from hospitalist-directed transfers
It can help alleviate overcrowding – and much more.
Clinical
Effects of hospitalization on readmission rate
Does the trauma of hospitalization increase the risk of 30-day readmission or ED visit rate?
Clinical
Exercise intervention reverses functional decline in elderly patients during acute hospitalization
Can an individualized, multicomponent exercise program help reverse functional and cognitive decline in acutely hospitalized, elderly patients?
Clinical
Standardized communication may prevent anticoagulant adverse drug events
What information is needed on discharge to reduce anticoagulant adverse drug events (ADEs)?
Clinical
Additional physical therapy decreases length of stay
Does additional physical therapy reduce length of stay and improve outcomes?