Search results for "Readmissions"
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond about bedside vs. scanning and how to take blood pressure.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/09/letters.htm
1 Sep 2011
Transitional care management yields benefit but is used rarely, study finds
A study described transitional care management as a promising delivery model innovation, but an editorial cautioned that payments may not be high enough to justify the extra work involved or may be targeted to the wrong place in the health care system.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2018/08/07/1.htm
7 Aug 2018
Optimizing medical therapy after stroke
Stroke survivors often leave the hospital with new prescriptions and substantial confusion about how, or even whether, to take them. This leaves internists with the sometimes formidable job of evaluating, prescribing, or tweaking these regimens, identifying and managing adverse effects, and reinforcing education about treatment risks, benefits, and adherence.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/06/stroke.htm
1 Jun 2016
Patients and families can help reinvent health care
True engagement requires listening and learning, making patients and families partners not just in decisions about their individual care but in designing practices and systems that will work for them.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/03/voices.htm
1 Mar 2013
New ACP Practice Advisor Module addresses patient and family engagement
The module covers new and innovative ways to ensure that a practice is employing the latest communication techniques, such as using an electronic health record to send out reminders and getting family members involved in care.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2017/03/07/2.htm
7 Mar 2017
Must telemedicine disrupt the patient-doctor relationship?
Telemedicine will be highly disruptive to patients and physicians. Like other technological advances, such disruption can be a good thing, leading to improvements in patient care. It can also be disruptive in a bad way if it undermines that patient-physician relationship.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/01/washington.htm
1 Jan 2016
Beta-blockers after MI associated with better survival but worsening function in nursing home patients
While some elderly patients can benefit from this guideline-directed therapy, costs and benefits need to be balanced in those with impairments, the authors said.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2016/12/20/4.htm
20 Dec 2016
Hopes and fears abound at National Bundled Payment Summit
Expansion of bundled payments to chronic disease treatment for internists would be complicated, but it's garnering interest. Demonstration projects show that hospitals that reduced the cost of care were able to pay physicians up to an extra 25% of what they would normally earn for their services.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/01/bundled.htm
1 Jan 2012
The March issue of ACP Hospitalist is online
The March issue of ACP Hospitalist is online. Featured stories include reframing readmissions, successful ward teams and patient identification errors.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/03/26/8.htm
26 Mar 2013
When negotiating contracts with ACOs, cover all the bases
Get specifics on access to data, and remember to plan for a possible exit strategy.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/07/contracts.htm
1 Jul 2013