Systems Addressing Frail Elders (SAFE) Care: Description of Successful Partnerships Across Hospitals.

Systems Addressing Frail Elders (SAFE) Care is an interprofessional team-based program, which was developed and evaluated in a cluster randomized controlled trial. Results of this trial included reduced length of stay and complications for patients. This article describes a successful partnership across 4 Magnet hospitals in the dissemination of the model.

The effect of a multidisciplinary hospitalist/physician and advanced practice nurse collaboration on hospital costs.

Objective: To compare nurse practitioner/physician management of hospital care, multidisciplinary team-based planning, expedited discharge, and assessment after discharge to usual management.

Background: In the context of managed care, the goal of academic medical centers is to provide quality care at the lowest cost and minimize length of stay (LOS) while not compromising quality.

Methods: Comparative, 2-group, quasiexperimental design was used; 1,207 general medicine patients (n=581 in the experimental group and n=626 in the control group) were enrolled.