Heart failure is a clinical syndrome that affects> 6.5 million Americans, with an estimated 550
000 new cases diagnosed each year. The complexity of heart failure management is …

Heart failure (HF) is a growing healthcare burden and one of the leading causes of
hospitalizations and readmission. Preventing readmissions for HF patients is an increasing …

A growing body of evidence has shown that neighborhood characteristics have significant
effects on quality metrics that evaluate health plans or health care providers. Using a data …

Importance Readmission penalties have catalyzed efforts to improve care transitions, but
few programs have incorporated viewpoints of patients and health care professionals to …

BACKGROUND Physician implicit (unconscious, automatic) bias has been shown to
contribute to racial disparities in medical care. The impact of medical education on implicit …

Objective To evaluate the prevalence of seven social factors using physician notes as
compared to claims and structured electronic health records (EHR s) data and the resulting …

Importance Safety-net hospitals provide broad services for a vulnerable population of
patients and are financially at risk owing to impending reimbursement penalties and policy …

Knapp 20 Jahre ist es her, dass das Institute of Medicine in den USA den bahnbrechenden
Report To Err Is Human („Irren ist menschlich") veröffentlichte und die internationale …

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Supplement. Background: Many experts believe that hospitals with more frequent …

Public reporting and payment programs in the United States have embraced thirty-day
readmissions as an indicator of between-hospital variation in the quality of care, despite …