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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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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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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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There are multiple small ways and steps hospitals can take to improve their patients' discharge instructions and care.
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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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Cardiogenic unilateral pulmonary edema is unusual and, if it is the presenting manifestation of heart failure, diagnosis and appropriate treatment may be delayed.
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There is no medical therapy for aortic stenosis (AS), and balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) has sub-optimal long-term results.
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Indications for surgical or interventional management in acute type B aortic dissection (ABAD) include malperfusion syndromes, progression of dissection, and aneurysm expansion.