Study: fewer heart deaths when QI efforts are made.
Re-hospitalization rates dropped 22% when physicians used toolkit. Participating hospitals encouraged to design the instruments themselves. With successive group meetings, hospital adoption rate of toolkit increased.
D000359:Aftercare; D006265:Health Care Coalitions; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017052:Hospital Mortality / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D008824:Michigan; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010359:Patient Readmission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards*