Assessing the Impact of Nurse Post-Discharge Telephone Calls on 30-Day Hospital Readmission Rates

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1519-1525

  Harrison, James D ^a   Auerbach, Andrew D ^a   Quinn, Kathryn ^b   Kynoch, Ellen ^c   Mourad, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

quality improvement; readmissions; transitions in care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFTERCARE; AGED; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TELENURSING; TELEPHONE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AFTERCARE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELENURSING; TELEPHONE;

EID: 84930892897     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-2954-2     Document Type: Article

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