Improving Care Transitions Means More Than Reducing Hospital Readmissions
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Improving care transitions means more than reducing hospital readmissions.
Hospital readmissions are not only expensive, avoidable, and dangerous, but are also indicative of the most dysfunctional elements of US health care. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act places great emphasis on reducing preventable readmissions by building care systems that are patient-centered and that remove arbitrary silos of care. Hospitals that perform poorly on this measure wil...
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عنوان ژورنال: North Carolina Medical Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0029-2559,0029-2559
DOI: 10.18043/ncm.73.1.31