Safe transitions from the hospital to home: A review of the pediatric hospitalist's discharge workflow.

For children to have safe transitions from the hospital to home, inpatient physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, should use a standardized discharge process that focuses on thorough discharge planning, multidisciplinary teamwork, communication, and effective hand-offs of care.  Using quality improvement science will help physicians analyze and improve their discharge process and ensure safe discharges.

Combined negative pressure wound therapy and ultrasonic MIST therapy for open surgical wounds: a case series.

Background: Surgical wounds are at increased risk of infection when left open to heal through secondary intention; they increase length of hospital stay, hospital costs, readmission rates, and patient morbidity. New technologies and methods of treating acute and chronic wounds are emerging. Two recent developments for the treatment of open wounds are noncontact low-frequency ultrasound (NCLFU) treatment and negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT).