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Borrow best practices for hospital readmission reduction programs
Hospitals and health systems can pull the best practices from some of the leading models for hospital readmission reduction programs, adjusting the strategies for the individual institutions, said
Take a walk with me: Patient mobility shortens length of stay
Walking patients can help improve the care of older adults and shorten length of stay, according to recent studies. Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston found that
EDs fail to recognize elder cognitive impairment
Older patients with cognitive impairment, such as dementia and delirium, pay a large number of visits to emergency departments (ED), but EDs may be ill equipped to identify their impairment,
Older seniors account for a large share of hospital discharges
The oldest adults have always represented a larger share of hospital discharges than their population size would suggest. So any proposal to cut healthcare costs must take a closer look at how older
