Patients in the pre-implementation group had a 10.7% (35 of 327) readmission rate, whereas patients in the post-implementation group had a 5.3% (25 of 469) readmission rate. Providing pediatric ...

Telemedicine appears to be a key to reducing racial inequities in follow-up care after hospitalization, according to numbers collected amid the pandemic by researchers at the Perelman School of ...

Rates of follow-up appointments in physicians offices have remained steady over the past three years, but follow-ups after telehealth appointments are slightly more likely, according to a report ...

A new study at Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City and led by faculty at University of Utah Health has found that follow-up appointments for hospitalized children treated for ...

Real-World Adherence to Patient-Reported Outcome Monitoring as a Cancer Care Quality Metric The following represents disclosure information provided by authors of this manuscript. All relationships ...

A cancer survivor shares tips for getting through dreaded follow-up appointments that may lead to anxiety. I am not sure, but I bet you find your oncology follow-up appointments a bit scary if not ...

Objective. To determine whether text mining can accurately detect specific follow-up appointment criteria in free-text hospital discharge records. Design. Cross-sectional study. Setting. Mayo Clinic ...

Naturally occurring variations in appointment frequencies do not appear to have a major impact on clinical outcomes, but they significantly affect waiting times. Objectives: This study determined ...

"So, what should we do about 11 no-show appointments?" Recently, a colleague brought to my attention a patient who had made and canceled multiple appointments in our practice -- 11 over the 4-month ...

Nearly 38,000 vital follow-up appointments with mental health patients were missed at the time at which they were most at risk of suicide, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has said. The medical body ...