Florida initiative aims to slash unnecessary admissions due to 'catch-all' dehydration diagnosis.
When the peer review organization in Florida sounded an alarm about unnecessary medical admissions with the diagnosis of dehydration, a Tampa hospital decided to make the issue a priority. Although St. Joseph's Hospital was performing better than average, it still found ways to reduce the number of inappropriate admissions and improve related outcome measures.
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