Necessity is the mother of invention: an innovative hospitalist-resident initiative for improving quality and reducing readmissions from skilled nursing facilities

Background: Hospital readmissions have been a major challenge to the US health system. Medicare data shows that approximately 25% of Medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents are readmitted back to the hospital within 30 days. Some of the major reasons for high readmission rates include frag...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sunny Petigara, Mahesh Krishnamurthy, David Livert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-04-01
Series:Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2017.1313492