Abstract Background and Objectives Despite numerous, often predictable, transitions in
care, little is known about the core elements of successful transitions in care specifically for …

In patients with heart failure (HF), use of 30-day rehospitalization as a healthcare metric and
increased pressure to provide value-based care compel healthcare providers to improve …

PURPOSE Despite concerted actions to streamline care transitions, the journey from
hospital to home remains hazardous for patients and caregivers. Remarkably little is known …

Background and Objectives: Overuse and inappropriate use of testing and hospital
admission are common in syncope evaluation and management. Though guidelines are …

As people age, they are more likely to have an increasing number of medical diagnoses and
medications, as well as healthcare providers who care for those conditions. Health …

Background Care transitions between clinicians or settings are often fragmented and
marked by adverse events. To increase patient safety and deliver more efficient and effective …

Background Despite recommendations and the need to accelerate redesign of delivery
models to be team-based and patient-centred, professional silos and cultural and structural …

Methods: This article synthesizes insights from organizational health literacy in the context of
current major health care challenges and toward the goal of innovation in patient-centered …

Forty Years of Work on End-of-Life Care — From Patients' Rights to Systemic Reform | New
England Journal of Medicine Skip to main content The New England Journal of Medicine …

Quality improvement (QI) efforts hold great promise for improving care delivery. However,
hospitals often struggle with QI implementation and fail to sustain improvement in either …