Search results for "Care Transitions"
Could less be more in care transitions?
Interventions to improve the quality of care transitions may work better when they are less complex, say researchers who offer some ideas for future efforts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/31/could-less-be-more-in-care-transitions.htm
31 Jan 2024
Care transitions program may help reduce 30-day readmissions
A new study suggests a program that helps older patients transition from hospital to home or other care facilities may reduce readmissions, though editorialists disagreed on the relevance of the results.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/07/31/4.htm
31 Jul 2013
Functional impairments predict readmissions among older patients
Measures including hand grip strength, Short Physical Performance Battery scores, gait speed, low mobility, and the Timed Up-and-Go Test, used either before or during admission, identified those at higher risk for readmission within 90 days, according to a systematic review.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/11/13/functional-impairments-predict-readmissions-among-older-patients.htm
13 Nov 2024
Stuck in the hospital
Delayed discharges of medically stable patients are a problem that's not going away.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/09/18/stuck-in-the-hospital.htm
18 Sep 2024
1 in 10 older inpatients with diabetes discharged with intensified medication regimen
Nearly half of those who had their diabetes medications intensified after hospitalization had already reached outpatient blood glucose goals or had limited life expectancy, according to a recent Veterans Health Administration study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/01/5.htm
1 Apr 2020
January 31, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/31/
September 7, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/09/07/
Nearly half of inpatients with pneumonia or urinary tract infection were overprescribed antibiotics after discharge
The most common types of antibiotic overuse after discharge included excess duration for pneumonia and unnecessary treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria, a retrospective cohort study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/09/23/3.htm
23 Sep 2020
February 2019
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/02/
Hospitalists, primary care clinicians favor EMR communication at discharge over other methods
In a survey of clinicians at a safety-net hospital system, direct messages sent via a shared electronic medical record (EMR) were preferred to phone, email, fax, and text messaging.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/15/5.htm
15 Apr 2020