Engineering safer care coordination from hospital to home: lessons from the USA.

The safe transition of a patient from hospital into the community requires effective coordination between healthcare professionals across organisational boundaries. Preventing transition-associated failures can be especially challenging when multiple disciplines are involved and the patient has extensive care needs. The field of systems engineering is increasingly recognised as useful to help understand, improve and redesign such complex healthcare processes to improve patient experience and outcomes.

Workforce Projections 2010-2020: Annual Supply and Demand Forecasting Models for Physical Therapists Across the United States.

Background: Health human resources continue to emerge as a critical health policy issue across the United States.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop a strategy for modeling future workforce projections to serve as a basis for analyzing annual supply of and demand for physical therapists across the United States into 2020.

Design: A traditional stock-and-flow methodology or model was developed and populated with publicly available data to produce estimates of supply and demand for physical therapists by 2020.