Search results for "Care Transitions"
Nurse-led care transitions program for rural veterans didn't decrease overall costs
While the change in overall 30-day health care costs after hospitalization did not differ between participants and controls, program enrollees had a significantly smaller increase in inpatient costs and a significantly larger increase in outpatient costs from before hospitalization to after.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/09/07/nurse-led-care-transitions-program-for-rural-veterans-didnt-decrease-overall-costs.htm
7 Sep 2022
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
A new kind of stewardship
Patients taking antiretroviral therapy are at risk for medication errors during hospitalization and care transitions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/01/a-new-kind-of-stewardship.htm
15 Jan 2020
Readmission causes, timing and reductions analyzed
Readmissions of recently hospitalized patients were the focus of several studies published last week in the Jan. 23/30 Journal of the American Medical Association.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/01/30/2.htm
30 Jan 2013
New recommendations on managing patients with opioid use disorder from SHM
The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) released a consensus statement on the management of opioid use disorder in inpatients, including identification and treatment of the condition, pain management in patients with it, and care transitions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/03/free/new-recommendations-on-managing-patients-with-opioid-use-disorder-from-shm.htm
3 Aug 2022
Antibiotics and AKI, stroke rehab, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/06/recent-research.htm
15 Jun 2018
PE in pregnancy, normal troponins
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/09/recent-research.htm
15 Sep 2019
Hard data lacking on postdischarge follow-up
The literature on postdischarge clinics has traditionally been complicated because patients who visit them are not random.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/05/11/1.htm
11 May 2016
Take the C-TraIn
Oregon Health ##amp; Science University helped improve transitions by paying community clinics to serve as medical homes for low-income patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/03/ctrain.htm
15 Mar 2012
Recent Research
Post-stroke depression risk, side effects from statins, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/10/rr.htm
15 Oct 2013