Articles Tagged With: LOS
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Health System’s Case Managers Shorten Length of Stay for Complex Patients
Placing case managers in acute care and ambulatory settings to focus on transitions of complex patients could help shorten length of stay.
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Study Reveals Positive Benefits of COPD Transition Bundle
A study of a care transition bundle that included a care coordinator revealed COPD patients in the bundle cohort were less likely to be readmitted to the hospital within seven days and 30 days, but 90-day readmissions were unchanged.
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What are liability risks when patients don't speak English?
Imagine yourself at 2 a.m. trying to determine if a patient clutching his chest is having a myocardial infarction, but this patient doesn't speak a word of English.