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01.07.2014 | Capsule Commentary
Capsule Commentary on Turner et al., The Impact of Hospitalist Discontinuity on Hospital Cost, Readmissions, and Patient Satisfaction
verfasst von:
Kathlyn E. Fletcher, MD MA
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 7/2014
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Excerpt
In this study, the authors evaluated the effect of hospitalist discontinuity on cost, readmission and patient satisfaction.
1 Discontinuity was measured by modifying two tools that are typically applied in the outpatient rather than inpatient setting: the Usual Provider of Care Index (UPC)
2 and the Number of Physicians Index (NPI).
3 The authors found that discontinuity was associated with increased costs, had no impact on patient satisfaction and trended toward fewer readmissions. …