Open AccessAssociation Between Quality Improvement for Care Transitions in Communities and Rehospitalizations Among Medicare Beneficiaries
Author(s) -
Jane Brock,
Jason W. Mitchell,
Kimberly Irby,
Beth Stevens,
Traci Archibald,
Alicia Goroski,
Joanne Lynn,
for the Care Transitions Project Team
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
jama
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688
H-Index - 680
eISSN - 1538-3598
pISSN - 0098-7484
DOI - 10.1001/jama.2012.216607
Subject(s) - medicine , quality management , intervention (counseling) , family medicine , quality (philosophy) , nursing , service (business) , philosophy , epistemology , economy , economics
Medicare beneficiaries experience errors during transitions among care settings, yielding harms that include unnecessary rehospitalizations.
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