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Sep
stored in: Tim Rowan's Home Care Technology Report and tagged: continuity of care, home healthcare referrals and hospitalists, hospital discharge plans, hospitalist physicians and communications, hospitalists and home health care industry, hospitalists and post-acute care providers, patient education, patient readmissions, patient satisfaction, patient transitions to outpatient care, physicians
A cost-saving measure growing in popularity in hospitals across the country is causing increased readmissions and decreased patient satisfaction. Most home care agencies have experienced the communications and cooperation disconnect caused by hospitalist physicians. Now, two new studies confirm their experience. Published in the August 5 issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine (JHM), […]
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