Open AccessCare coordination for veterans with COPD: a positive deviance study
Author(s) -
Ekaterina Anderson,
Wiener Rs,
Kirsten Resnick,
A. Rani Elwy,
Seppo T. Rinne
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the american journal of managed care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1936-2692
pISSN - 1088-0224
DOI - 10.37765/ajmc.2020.42394
Subject(s) - medicine , copd , deviance (statistics) , managed care , positive deviance , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , gerontology , family medicine , health care , nursing , economics , economic growth , statistics , mathematics
Improving chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care and reducing hospital readmissions is an urgent healthcare system priority. However, little is known about the organizational factors that underlie intersite variation in readmission rates. Evidence from other chronic diseases points to care coordination as one such factor.