Transitions of Care
Clinical
Creating innovative discharge plans
Teamwork creates success at one institution.
Quality
Hospitalists and PTs: Building strong relationships
Hospitalists and physical therapists can together achieve high-value care during and following a hospitalization.
News
Opportunities missed for advance care planning for elderly ICU patients
SAN DIEGO – Most ICU patients older than age 65 years had no documented advance care planning.
Practice Management
The ever-evolving scope of hospitalists’ clinical services
As health care becomes ever more complex, high-functioning hospital medicine groups are needed to navigate it.
Quality
New handoff tool can improve safety
It provided a means of enabling standardized transitions to the hospitalist inpatient service.
Clinical
Meal programs for dual eligibles
Participants in a medically tailored meal program had fewer inpatient admissions and lower medical spending.
Quality
Giving hospitalists a larger clinical footprint
Hospitalists do not do SNF handoffs in the same manner as ICUs, but it’s time to change.
Public Policy
CMS modifies the inpatient admission order requirement, or did it?
Medicare auditors have been given discretion to overlook an inpatient order flaw, but providers have not.
Quality
Focus on patient experience to cut readmission rates
Key issues might not be captured in standard postdischarge surveys.
Quality
Hospital-level care coordination strategies and the patient experience
Does patient experience correlate with specific hospital care coordination and transition strategies, and if so, which strategies most strongly...