Transitions of Care
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Transition in care from the MICU to the ward
Patient handoffs where both receiving and transferring providers share the same mental model result in better outcomes.
Practice Management
Consider ‘impactibility’ to prevent hospital readmissions
Predictive models and clinicians together might produce more effective decisions than either does alone.
Quality
Using post-acute and long-term care quality report cards
Hospitalists and discharge planners should engage and assist patients, families, and caregivers in the decision making process.
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Delving into the details
Project reveals the fundamental difficulty of clinical decision-making in the first 24 hours of a patient’s admission.
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Patient handoffs and research methods
One of the benefits of asking open-ended questions is the ability to glean a large amount of information.
Quality
Identifying high-value care practices
A high-value care rounding tool could be used to measure the relationship between HVC behaviors and actual patient outcomes.
Clinical
Rates, predictors, and variability of interhospital transfers
Clinical question: What is the national frequency of interhospital transfers, and are there any patient or hospital factors that...
Clinical
Mortality risks associated with emergency admission during weekends and public holidays
Clinical question: What factors contribute to increased mortality in weekend hospital admissions?
Clinical
Improving transitions for elderly patients
A new model for improving patient transitions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities significantly decreased SNF length of stay, readmission...
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Identifying the right database
The potential for finding the answers to many patient-care questions probably lies in the EMR data you already have.