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In 2008, the health system’s program to contact discharged emergency department (ED) and immediat...
A systematic, repeatable approach was developed to monitor pneumonia patients 30 days following d...
According to published research data, the majority of cardiac stent patients have no additional r...
Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...
Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...
For more than two decades, health services researchers have been using statewide hospital disc...
The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...
The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...
Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing rea...
Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing rea...
Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...
Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...
One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...
AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...
A multidisciplinary team was developed with objectives to provide clear, easy to understand educa...
Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...
St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...
About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...