“What Would It Take to Transform Post-Acute Care?” 2019 Conference Proceedings on Re-envisioning Post-Acute Care

Bundled Payment and Care of Acute Stroke: What Does it Take to Make it Work?

W ith nearly 800 000 strokes occurring a year, stroke remains the leading cause of disability and the fourth most common cause of death in the United States. 1 Stroke also imposes an enormous economic burden, including long-term care costs and productivity losses. Total direct medical stroke-related costs to US economy are projected to triple from $71.6 billion in 2012 to $184.1 billion in 2030...

Skilled Nursing Facilities and Post Acute Care

The rapid growth in the number of the elderly has created an unprecedented challenge to the current health system. Taking care of the frail elderly continue to face significant barriers achieving the desired and optimal care. The elderly are most vulnerable for higher rate of complications in the post acute care of their illness either due to mental, physical or psychosocial impairments, requir...

Patient Preferences for Information on Post-Acute Care Services.

The purpose of the current study was to explore what hospitalized patients would like to know about post-acute care (PAC) services to ultimately help them make an informed decision when offered PAC options. Thirty hospitalized adults 55 and older in a Northeastern U.S. academic medical center participated in a qualitative descriptive study with conventional content analysis as the analytical te...

Absolutely Positively on Time: What Would It Take?

Despite considerable progress in software and hardware techniques, when embedded computing systems absolutely must meet tight timing constraints, many of the advances in computing become part of the problem rather than part of the solution. Although synchronous digital logic delivers precise timing determinacy, advances in computer architecture and software have made it difficult or impossible ...

What would it take to raise Australian productivity growth?