Quality’s New Frontier: reducing hospitalizations and Improving Transitions in Long-Term care
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This brief reviews recent efforts to measure and reduce potentially avoidable hospitalization and improve care transitions for individuals who use long-term care, including residents of nursing homes and people in homeand community-based service settings. We describe three areas in which progress is needed: (1) validated measures of avoidable hospitalizations and care transitions for use in long-term care; (2) wider adoption of evidence-based care models and interventions that work in these settings; and (3) payment reforms that give providers a financial incentive to measure and improve performance. We conclude with questions deserving more research to fill gaps in knowledge on how best to improve care quality.
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