Promoting effective transitions of care at hospital discharge: a review of key issues for hospitalists.

Delays, omissions, and inaccuracy of discharge information are common at hospital discharge and put patients at risk for adverse outcomes. We assembled an interdisciplinary team of stakeholders to evaluate our current discharge process between…

Due to ever increasing energy demand and expectation, the renewable distributed generation (DG) sources such as fuel cells, wind and solar has received a great attention. Microgrid can be viewed as a cluster of loads and parallel DG units installed…

In an effort to bolster soundness standards in banking, the 2006 interna- tional regulatory agreement of Basel II requires globally active banks to include operational risk in estimating the regulatory and economic capital to be held against major…

BACKGROUND: Medical errors often occur when patients move between care settings. Physicians generally receive little formal education on improving patient care transitions. OBJECTIVE: To develop a sustainable and effective Transition in Care…

PURPOSE: This research was conducted to gain an understanding of the care-by-parent experience for mothers of preterm infants. DESIGN: Phenomenologic methodology was used to explore the experiences of six mothers. Each participant slept overnight…

AIM: To identify the services that hospital pharmacies were providing in 1999 to facilitate seamless care upon patient discharge. DESIGN: Postal questionnaire containing closed and open questions. SUBJECTS AND SETTING: U.K. Trust hospitals.…

BACKGROUND: Adjuvant clopidogrel therapy is essential after drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation. The frequency with which patients delay filling a clopidogrel prescription after DES implantation and the association of this delay with adverse…

Patient-centered care is a key characteristic of quality health care in the 21st century. Three patient-driven processes of care, characteristic of patient-centered models of care, may be related to improved readiness for discharge: patients'…

This paper highlights three selected issues and potential strategies towards meeting chronic disease management needs. First, the orientation of the biomedical science model often gives insufficient attention to chronic health care needs. A second…

Recent policy developments (such as the Childrens Plan) and the introduction of a new national strategy (the Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning programme) have re-emphasised the importance of social and emotional skills in educational…