Search results for "Care Transitions"
The case for a chief primary care medical officer
Two physicians propose a new administrative/clinical role to reduce discontinuity between inpatient and outpatient care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/01/qa-chief-primary-care-medical-officer.htm
15 Jan 2018
Electronic tool for ICU-to-ward discharge linked to timely, complete discharge summaries
A Canadian study of adult patients discharged from the ICU to a hospital ward found that the proportion of those with timely and complete discharge summaries increased from 10.8% to 71.1% after implementation of a structured electronic discharge summary tool.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/24/electronic-tool-for-icu-to-ward-discharge-linked-to-timely-complete-discharge-summaries.htm
24 Aug 2022
Virtual rounds after transfers to SNF identified errors in discharge summaries
Hospitalists at two academic hospitals met weekly with clinicians from skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to discuss patients who had recently been handed off, and they found errors in nearly a quarter of discharge summaries.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/10/11/virtual-rounds-after-transfers-to-snf-identified-errors-in-discharge-summaries.htm
11 Oct 2023
Discharges to post-acute care facilities rose nearly 50% in 15 years
Discharges to post-acute care (PAC) facilities increased 49% between 1996 and 2010, while discharges to home decreased 5% in this time period, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/12/10/1.htm
10 Dec 2014
Mortality rates similar, readmissions lower in hospital patients cared for by locum tenens
The hospital patients who were treated by locums did have significantly higher Medicare Part B spending and longer length of stay, the retrospective study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/12/13/2.htm
13 Dec 2017
February 15, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/15/
In the News
CMS-funded intervention and Medicare readmissions, guideline update on new drugs for heart failure.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/08/in-the-news.htm
15 Aug 2016
Failing to prevent heart failure readmissions
Hospitalist use was associated with greater adherence to heart failure performance measures,.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/02/qa.htm
15 Feb 2014
Recent Research
HCAHPS scores, order sets for COPD inpatients, warfarin in brain injury patients, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/11/rr.htm
15 Nov 2014
It takes a community
The Camden Coalition in New Jersey and other health care systems are addressing the problem of hospital readmissions by bringing people together at the local level.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/05/readmissions.htm
15 May 2010