A free discharge checklist and care transition plan for patients is available from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of its Care About Your Care program. Care About Your Care is an RWJF ...

With Medicare no longer reimbursing hospitals for certain preventable readmissions within 30 days of discharge, the onus now is on providers to improve transitions from acute to ambulatory and home ...

A free patient/family discharge planning checklist is available from the Society of Hospital Medicine. The checklist is designed to help patients prepare for their transition from the hospital to home ...

A growing body of evidence supporting safety and benefits has persuaded many hospitals to consider a switch to same-day discharge following PCI, but just how to get started may prove daunting. Now, a ...

Complimentary checklists for discharging acute myocardial infarction and heart failure patients are available from TMF Health Quality Institute, Texas’ quality improvement organization. The one-page ...

At 8 years old, he was a happy second grader and enthusiastic soccer player. Then, his family’s car hit a median on the highway, and the crash ejected him from the vehicle. He spent nearly 3 months in ...

As anyone who has been a patient or a visitor at a hospital knows, they're often confusing, chaotic places. By the time you learn the routines and the rules, with any luck you're recovered and on your ...

The hospital discharge summary—a document that outlines a patient's hospital stay for their outpatient providers—can take up ...