Information Sharing Practices Between US Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities to Support Care Transitions.

Importance: Patient transitions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) require robust information sharing. After a decade of investment in health information technology infrastructure and new incentives to promote hospital-SNF coordination in the US, the current state of information sharing at this critical transition is unknown.

Objective: To measure the completeness, timeliness, and usability of information shared by hospitals when discharging patients to SNFs, and to identify relational and structural characteristics associated with better hospital-SNF information sharing.

Changes in Racial Disparities in Mortality After Cancer Surgery in the US, 2007-2016.

Importance: Racial disparities are well documented in cancer care. Overall, in the US, Black patients historically have higher rates of mortality after surgery than White patients. However, it is unknown whether racial disparities in mortality after cancer surgery have changed over time.

Hospital adoption of electronic health record functions to support age-friendly care: results from a national survey.

Objective: To measure US hospitals' adoption of electronic health record (EHR) functions that support care for older adults, focusing on structured documentation of the 4Ms (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility) and electronic health information exchange/communication with patients, caregivers, and long-term care providers.

Materials And Methods: In an online survey of a national, random sample of 797 US acute-care hospitals in 2018-2019, 479 (60.1%) responded.