title: Simple rules that reduce hospital readmission.
abstract: To overcome system failures, health care organizations must implement a few simple rules of complex adaptive systems. I describe Transition in Care, Kaiser Permanente Southern California's program to reduce hospital readmissions, as an example of a program design that meets the principles of complex adaptive systems and enumerate five rules, which must be followed if a health system is to create value for their stakeholders.
authors.affiliation: Senior Clinical Investigator for Health Partners Research Foundation in Minneapolis, MN, and a Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School. E-mail: thomas.e.kottke@healthpartners.com.
authors.forename: Thomas E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Kottke
mesh_terms: D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000592:standards*; D010359:Patient Readmission; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic