title: Mastering readmissions: laying the foundation for change. Post-healthcare reform, pioneers are laying the foundation for serious readmissions-reduction work.
abstract: At a small number of patient care organizations nationwide, pioneering clinician, executive, and healthcare IT leaders are engaging in the serious work needed to lay the foundation for reducing avoidable inpatient readmissions, in such important areas as congestive heart failure. Not surprisingly, intelligently leveraging clinical IT is turning out o be a critical success factor.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Haglund
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D010359:Patient Readmission; D014481:United States