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Provider Interventions and Tools

Upcoming changes in healthcare policy are putting a new emphasis on the importance of quality care transitions. The Affordable Care Act will impose financial penalties on hospitals with high rates of readmissions. Reducing unnecessary readmissions and avoidable admissions will decrease risk and harm to patients and costs to Medicare. Seamless care transitions require committed collaboration among healthcare providers, stakeholders and organizations to address system level gaps in care transition communications. Selection of evidence-based interventions addressing the communities’ problems will effectively improve the quality of patient centered care and satisfaction.

Empowering patients and their caregivers to play a more active role in understanding and self-managing their health conditions also results in reducing readmission rates. Teach back education strategies, multiple reinforcement education sessions and coaching lead to improved understanding of medication and condition management as well as an increase in the patients/caregivers self-confidence in caring for themselves during the transition period and beyond.

Care Transitions Search Engine

Check out this new search engine that is customized to look for high-quality content on improving care transitions and patient safety. Enter any search term you like. When the results come back you will see tabs at the top. Select any tab to filter your results to look for content on those issues as they relate to your search.

This free widget was designed by Growth House using Google's search technology and can be found at http://medicaring.org. It prioritizes search results based on carefully-selected list of sites that specialize in evidence-based quality improvement for healthcare.

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