Context Predicting hospital readmission risk is of great interest to identify which patients
would benefit most from care transition interventions, as well as to risk-adjust readmission …

New financial penalties for institutions with high readmission rates have intensified efforts to
reduce rehospitalization. Several interventions that involve multiple components (eg, patient …

People with diabetes are more likely to be hospitalized and to have longer durations of
hospital stay than those without diabetes. A recent survey estimated that 22% of all hospital …

Improving access to justice has been an ongoing process, and on-demand justice should be
a natural part of our increasingly on-demand society. What can we do for example when …

Background—Reducing hospital readmission rates is a national priority; however, evidence
about hospital strategies that are associated with lower readmission rates is limited. We …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Chronic opioid therapy for chronic pain treatment has
increased. Hospital physicians, including hospitalists and medical/surgical resident …

Context Early hospital readmission is emerging as an indicator of care quality. Some
children with chronic illnesses may be readmitted on a recurrent basis, but there are limited …

Transitional care (TC) has received widespread attention from researchers, health system
leaders, clinicians, and policy makers as they attempt to improve health outcomes and …

The pattern of patients admitted to internal medicine wards has dramatically changed in the
last 20–30 years. Elderly people are now the most rapidly growing proportion of the patient …

Objective: To examine the evidence regarding the effectiveness of medication reconciliation
and review and to improve clinical outcomes in hospitals, the community, and aged care …