A community-wide quality improvement project on patient care transitions reduces 30-day hospital readmissions from home health agencies

Home Healthcare Nurse

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Markley, Jennifer ^a   Sabharwal, Karen ^a   Wang, Ziyin ^a   Bigbee, Cindy ^a   Whitmire, Linda ^a  

^a TMF Health Quality Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MEDICARE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; STATISTICS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOME CARE AGENCIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; PATIENT READMISSION; POLICY MAKING; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TEXAS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863280200     PISSN: 0884741X     EISSN: 15390713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NHH.0b013e318246d540     Document Type: Article

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