2024, Healthcare and PCP - Primary Care Digest

Transitional Care Management care team impact on no-show rates to hospital discharge appointments [Patient education/adherence]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The care coordinator then attempted to call the patients on 3 consecutive days after discharge to make an appointment with either the patient’s PCP or an APP. It also decreased readmission rates and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in healthcare expenses.

Appointment

Appointment Hospital Management DO

Primary care follow-up after Emergency Department discharge for patients with chest pain in Ontario: a scoping review [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In Ontario, MD follow-up after ED discharge for chest pain is mostly provided by primary care physicians (PCPs) and sometimes cardiologists. Objective: We explored factors associated with PCP follow-up for patients discharged from Ontario EDs with non-life-threatening chest pain. Outcome Measures: Factors associated with PCP follow-up.

Primary Care

Primary Care PCP PCP Patients

EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Katie: Yeah.

Community

Community Transportation IT PCP

Transitional Care Management care team impact on no-show rates to hospital discharge appointments [Patient education/adherence]

Primary care follow-up after Emergency Department discharge for patients with chest pain in Ontario: a scoping review [Cardiovascular disease]

EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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