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Solving the puzzle of posthospital recovery: What is the role of the individual physician?
Author(s) -
Greysen S. Ryan,
Detsky Allan S.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of hospital medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.128
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1553-5606
pISSN - 1553-5592
DOI - 10.1002/jhm.2421
Subject(s) - medicine , incentive , psychological intervention , proxy (statistics) , perspective (graphical) , health care , acute hospital , medline , acute care , nursing , hospital medicine , front line , family medicine , machine learning , artificial intelligence , computer science , political science , law , economics , microeconomics , economic growth
Improving transitions of care from the acute care setting has been an important focus of health policy in the United States and Canada. Over the past decade, hospital performance metrics related to successful recovery have been used in the United States to implement incentives for reform. This focus has led to a laudable number of interventions to reduce readmissions—a proxy for failed recovery—but most of these have focused on the hospital or system level rather than the individual physician level. Individual physicians in both the inpatient and outpatient setting have important roles to play, but little guidance or structured support is available to them to enable successful engagement in postdischarge management of patient transitions. We describe several tensions of physician engagement in this process from the perspective of front‐line providers and highlight several possible approaches to improve physician engagement in transitions. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2015;10:697–700. © 2015 Society of Hospital Medicine