Innovative ways to reduce unnecessary acute care admissions
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A study investigating how hospitals try to avoid unnecessary emergency admissions has identified a series of innovations that can help to address this pressing problem in different ways...
...The research team, led by
Plymouth University and including experts from the
University of the West of England,
University of Bristol, and the
University of Exeter has carried out research to investigate how the emergency departments and staff of four major hospitals in the south west of England respond to emergency care pressures and the experiences of their patients. The findings were
published1.29.16 in the
Health Services and Delivery Research journal.
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press release announcing the posting of the study results:
...this study, capturing the experiences of patients and staff, informs the ongoing debate about how to reduce avoidable admissions. The information can assist policy makers with the evidence they need in order to advise on innovations that can improve...<healthcare provider>...performance and most importantly patient experience.
One percent of U.S. docs responsible for a third of malpractice payments
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Gene Emery reports in a
1.27.16Reuters Healthpost:
Just one out of every 100 U.S. doctors is responsible for 32 percent of the malpractice claims that result in payments to patients, according to a comprehensive study of 15 years' worth of cases.
And when a doctor has to pay out one claim, the chances are good that the same physician will soon be paying out on another, researchers report in the
New England Journal of Medicine.
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"I think people will be surprised about the extent to which the claims are concentrated within a relatively small group of practitioners. It's actually more concentrated than in earlier studies," chief author
David Studdert of
Stanford University in California told Reuters Health.
Adoption of Certified Electronic Health Record Systems and Electronic Information Sharing in Physician Offices: United States, 2013 and 2014
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A
CDC.govNCHS Data Brief, posted
1.27.16, details EHR adoption in the United States.
WIM Nationwide the adoption rate is approaching 75% for 2014 (the latest data available). Florida lags a bit with an adoption rate of 64.1%.
