Hospital Readmissions: Physician Awareness and Communication Practices

Partnering to improve hospital-physician office communication through implementing care transitions best practices.

Quality Partners of Rhode Island, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization, was awarded a Medicare contract to implement a three-year care transitions program. The Safe Transitions Project aimed to improve the safety of patient care transitions by translating effective patient and provider interventions into sustainable systems change. After testing evidencebased interventions locally and ...

Physician responses to the marketplace: group practices and hospital alliances.

Congress is now debating legislation that would give independent physicians the right to bargain collectively with managed care organizations. Proponents argue that this legislation is needed to counterbalance the market power of managed care organizations; opponents argue that physicians can already gain leverage and negotiating strength by forming group practices or through joint ventures wit...

Reducing Hospital Readmissions

2 Introduction For most patients who leave the hospital, the last thing they want is to return anytime soon. Yet, many Medicare patients discharged from an inpatient stay find themselves back in the hospital within 30 days. Some of these readmissions are planned, and others may be part of the natural course of treatment for specific conditions; but, increasingly, some hospital readmissions are ...

Addressing Medicare Hospital Readmissions

Physician and Nurse Nighttime Communication and Parents' Hospital Experience.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Night teams of hospital providers have become more common in the wake of resident physician duty hour changes. We sought to examine relationships between nighttime communication and parents' inpatient experience. METHODS We conducted a prospective cohort study of parents (n = 471) of pediatric inpatients (0-17 years) from May 2013 to October 2014. Parents rated their ...