Background: Super-utilizers of the health care system compose a small percentage of the population, yet use the most health care resources. Hotspotting addresses this issue by providing high-quality, personalized care to this population.
Purpose: This review examined how hotspotting has been defined, implemented, and measured.
Studies have shown the impact of interprofessional education (IPE) on health professions students' knowledge, skills, and attitudes and, to some extent, its impact on patient and organizational outcomes. This retrospective quasi-experimental study explored the impact of home visits by teams of interprofessional health professions students on the readmission rates of patients recently discharged from the hospital. Patients (20 in the intervention group, 20 in the control group) were in the care of one home health agency during a 7-month period.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInterprofessional communication (IPC) is important for the inpatient oncology team due to the complexity and acuity of oncology patients. One intervention used to improve IPC is team rounding, yet few researchers have explored experiences of team members with team rounding. In this study, 12 interviews were conducted with providers from five different professions: Nursing Assistant, Registered Nurse, Pharmacist, Advanced Practice Provider, and Physician.
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February 2013
Improving patient safety in healthcare has reached critical mass both in the United States and worldwide. Effective communication between nurses and other members of the healthcare team is an essential component of patient safety. In obstetrics, poor communication and teamwork were causative factors in many of reviewed sentinel event cases.
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