Facilities that have a decreased length of stay also tend to have successful interventions for reducing emergency department crowding, according to an Annals of Emergency Medicine study.
You’ve been getting headaches, find yourself tossing and turning at night, and have a short fuse—often snapping at your family over the smallest things. If this sounds like you, it could be job-related stress.
Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers, a quality improvement program aimed at reducing hospitalizations and emergency department visits among nursing home patients, yielded little results, according to a JAMA Internal Medicine study.
CMS is thinking about scaling back its Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model, a program that aimed to reduce costs related to the most common inpatient surgery for Medicare beneficiaries: hip and knee replacements.
Challenges with care coordination often stand in the way of hospitals meeting accountable care organization objectives according to 62% of Massachusetts emergency department directors that responded to an Annals of Internal Medicine survey.
