So many options, where do we start? An overview of the care transitions literature.

Background: Health systems are faced with a large array of transitional care interventions and patient populations to whom such activities might apply.

Purpose: To summarize the health and utilization effects of transitional care interventions, and to identify common themes about intervention types, patient populations, or settings that modify these effects.

Data Sources: PubMed and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (January 1950-May 2014), reference lists, and technical advisors.

Treatment of anemia in patients with heart disease: a systematic review.

Background: The benefits of anemia treatment in patients with heart disease are uncertain.

Purpose: To evaluate the benefits and harms of treatments for anemia in adults with heart disease.

Data Sources: MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane databases; clinical trial registries; reference lists; and technical advisors.

Influence of acute hyperglycemia on otoacoustic emissions and the medial olivocochlear reflex.

Stimulus-frequency (SF) otoacoustic emission (OAE) amplitude and the amplitude of medial olivocochlear (MOC) inhibition of SF OAEs for ipsilateral, contralateral and bilateral MOC reflex elicitors were recorded in six subjects with type 2 diabetes during a glucose tolerance test (GTT). Five of the six subjects were tested twice for a total of 11 trials and three subjects were tested in a control experiment. During the GTT experiment, the subjects' blood glucose was elevated from a euglycemic level below 150 mg/dL to a hyperglycemic level above 160 mg/dL following the consumption of a bolus of 80 g of sugar.

Risk prediction models for hospital readmission: a systematic review.

Context: Predicting hospital readmission risk is of great interest to identify which patients would benefit most from care transition interventions, as well as to risk-adjust readmission rates for the purposes of hospital comparison.

Objective: To summarize validated readmission risk prediction models, describe their performance, and assess suitability for clinical or administrative use.

Data Sources And Study Selection: The databases of MEDLINE, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Library were searched from inception through March 2011, the EMBASE database was searched through August 2011, and hand searches were performed of the retrieved reference lists.