Background: Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), a value-based quality initiative by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the 30-day readmission rate is a critical metric for determining financial penalties for hospitals. However, this metric only accounts for patients readmitted to inpatient units, excluding those who return for observation unit stays or [...]

Background: Hospitalized patients often report that they lack the opportunity to share their priorities, and currently there is no standard protocol for hospitalists to elicit their patients’ priorities. Additionally, changes in 2025 to CMS reimbursement rules will require hospitals to have protocols for eliciting what matters to admitted patients, further necessitating the development of an [...]