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As health care reform has directed national focus to finding ways to improve public health and cut medical costs, leading hospitals, providers, and others are seeking ways to improve care transitions.
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There are multiple small ways and steps hospitals can take to improve their patients' discharge instructions and care.
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Once a health care system decides to improve its discharge planning process, the difficult next step is collecting information about what doesn't work and how to improve flawed processes.
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A hospital's discharge process could be well-organized and include best practices. But what happens when patients are kept in an acute care bed, because the usual care transition options will not work?
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Health care systems that lack quality improvement projects to reduce their readmission rates or fail to discuss utilization issues with private payers, third-party administrators (TPAs), and others already are stuck in 20th-century thinking and habits, experts say.
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One strategy hospitals can employ to improve their readmission rate is to use evidence-based tools and processes at discharge.
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Health care professionals working in the area of hospital discharge planning might find that the most effective way to understand how patients perceive their communication is to go through the process themselves.
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The authors tested samples sent to stanford hospital microbiology laboratory for diagnosis of C. difficile infection (CDI).
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Post-marketing surveillance outside the United States of the two FDA-licensed rotavirus vaccines, RotaTeq (Merck, licensed in 2006) and Rotarix (GSK Biologicals, licensed in 2008), have identified a very low but increased risk (1 case/100,000 vaccinated infants) of intussusception following Rotarix vaccination.
