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5 Attributes of Strong Post-Hospital Care, For Improved Transitions and Patient Safety

When a physician or other provider meets a patient after a hospital stay, the question of follow-up care – including roles and...

Targeting Medically Fragile Children in a Medical Home Setting

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the March 2013 issue of Case In Point. Over the last decade, medical care of...

Population Health and Care Coordination: Stars on the Healthcare Stage

Population health and care coordination are together rapidly gaining attention as the healthcare industry works to transform the...

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Supercharging Transitions of Care Through Case Management Accountability
For years, healthcare professionals and case managers have tried to draw focus to the management of transitions in care. Dropped balls and missed connections...


Putting the ‘Care’ Back Into Transitions of Care: A Manifest
Practice Design: Using Nurse Practitioners to Reduce Readmissions
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CLINICAL CARE
With Cost Transparency, Doctors Order Fewer Lab Tests
Knowing the costs of clinical tests may be a simple way to slash healthcare spending, concludes a new study that pitted the prescribing practices of doctors who knew the costs of blood tests vs. those who did not. Overall, the study...
SOCIAL WORK
Federal Office Created to Conduct Emergency Care Research
The National Institutes of Health recently announced the creation of the agency’s new Office of Emergency Care Research to coordinate and foster basic, clinical, and translational research and research training for the emergency...
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
Seasonal Affective Disorder Sufferers Have More Than Just Winter Blues
During the darker days of winter, more people report feeling depressed and tired. For many, it’s a normal response to less sunlight, but for others, it can be a clinical form of depression called seasonal affective disorder. To...
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Initiative Improves Antibiotic Use in Children’s Hospital
A pediatric quality improvement program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center significantly improved the correct utilization of antibiotics for children presenting with pneumonia, according to a study appearing in the...
ADULT & SENIOR
A Transitional Care Model to Reduce Hospital Readmissions From Skilled Nursing Facilities
Facing a convergence of quality-based trends, including bundled payments, value-based purchasing and payment penalties for high readmission rates, hospitals are under pressure like never before to reduce readmissions. But reducing...

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