Ninety-Day Readmission Risks, Rates, and Costs After Common Vascular Surgeries
October 28th 2014Common vascular surgery procedures are associated with frequent and high-cost readmissions. Open wounds with infection, functional dependence, lengthy procedures, and transfusion are associated with 90-day readmission after vascular surgery.
Using Electronic Health Record Clinical Decision Support Is Associated With Improved Quality of Care
October 28th 2014Using EHR clinical decision support is associated with improved quality of care. Most primary care practices are missing at least 1 "meaningful use" clinical decision support module.
Increasing Access to Specialty Care: Patient Discharges From a Gastroenterology Clinic
October 21st 2014The authors used a modified Delphi process involving primary care providers and gastroenterologists to identify safe patient discharges from gastroenterology clinics to primary care.