Search results for "Care Transitions"
December 13, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/12/13/
Fewer Medicare beneficiaries dying in the hospital, but ICU use at end of life still common
The retrospective cohort study included a 20% random sample of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries who died in 2000, 2005, 2009, 2011, or 2015.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/07/04/1.htm
4 Jul 2018
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
Improving in-hospital handoffs
Any physicians who hand off patients may want to consider how well their messages are being understood, especially because patient safety is at stake.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/04/17/4.htm
17 Apr 2019
October 11, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/10/11/
Top Docs
Our fourth annual Top Hospitalists issue recognizes leaders and teachers, innovators and mentors, researchers and pioneers.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/11/topdocs.htm
15 Nov 2011
Primary care, discharging, and admitting physicians disagree about readmission causes
The physicians most commonly cited factors related to patient understanding and ability to self-manage as contributing causes to readmission.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/06/22/1.htm
22 Jun 2016
What do PCPs wish hospitalists would do?
A survey looks at what PCPs want from their professional relationships with hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/09/PCPs-hospitalists-communication.htm
15 Sep 2015
FACP named 2012 MacArthur Fellow
Eric A. Coleman, MD, MPH, FACP, has been named a MacArthur Fellow for 2012.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/10/17/7.htm
17 Oct 2012
Readmission project failed to reduce readmissions or mortality, Swiss study finds
An accompanying editorial by Robert M. Wachter, MD, MACP, offered thoughts on why several recent interventions haven't budged readmissions and where to go from here.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/10/readmission-project-failed-to-reduce-readmissions-or-mortality-swiss-study-finds.htm
10 May 2023