Communication: A main factor in reducing readmissions
Case Management Weekly, April 9, 2008
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In most cases, a hospital’s goal is to improve a patient’s health and eventually discharge him or her home or to another facility where improvement can continue. So when a patient returns to the hospital for an unplanned stay with the same condition not long after discharge, something went wrong.
Readmissions happen for several reasons, but in most cases, they stem from communication breakdowns in the discharge plan, follow-up care, or medication reconciliation. The biggest problem with readmissions is that they cost the hospital and the patient time, money, and resources, says Jacquie Birmingham, RN, MS, vice president of professional services at Curaspan/eDischarge in
“A lot of the reasons for readmission can be traced back to the discharge process,”
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