Doctors and nurses treat a COVID-19 patient in a makeshift intensive care wing at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance. The deluge of patients has made the work of hospital discharge planners more ...

In the last few years, rates of hospital readmissions have become a key indicator of care quality, and for good reason. When significant numbers of patients in post-acute care settings experience a ...

Janesville, Wis.-based Mercy Hospital and Trauma Center has implemented an interactive video-based patient education initiative into the discharge process of its endoscopy unit. Patients and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Upon hospital discharge, most patients were not informed about “red-flag” signs and symptoms. Of patients who ...

A new study published in JAMA Network Open demonstrates that hospital virtual discharge meetings between patients, hospitalists and primary care doctors significantly improve patient satisfaction and ...

Moving beyond administrative automation, aiomics is now being used to transform the discharge letter—traditionally a ...

Changes in the way Medicare pays health care providers have created a strong inducement for hospitals and health systems to get patients involved in their own care. But, unless patients make a real ...

Objectives This study examined discharge outcomes and their predictors among patients enrolled in remote patient monitoring (RPM) support in Ontario, Canada. Design A 6-month competing risk survival ...

Recently, an 88-year-old member of my family underwent elective spinal surgery for disabling back pain. While the duration of hospitalization for anyone after surgery can be unpredictable, we were ...