Search results for "Transitions of Care"
Streamlining patient transfers
First-rate communication is key.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/10/transfer.htm
15 Oct 2014
The scourge of seven on/seven off
How many soccer games have you missed because of your work schedule? How often has your spouse had to eat dinner without you?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/05/perspectives.htm
15 May 2011
Pneumonia
Treatment, documentation, and follow-up for CAP, HCAP, HCAP, and VAP.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/01/morning-report-pneumonia.htm
15 Jan 2016
April 2015
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/04/
Learning from the best
Interviewing personnel at “best” and “worst” hospitals yielded some interesting findings.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/08/qa.htm
15 Aug 2011
Score can predict readmission risk
A prediction score can identify before discharge the likelihood of a potentially avoidable 30-day readmission, a new study suggests.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/04/03/1.htm
3 Apr 2013
February 2017
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/02/
Care coordination bundle reduced total cost of care for Medicare and Medicaid patients
The intervention was also associated with decreases in the ED visit rate among Medicaid patients and a reduction in practitioner follow-up visits for both patient groups.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/11/07/3.htm
7 Nov 2018
January 2013
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/01/
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