Meeting
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (AECOPD) is the third leading cause of readmissions and is now included in the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). Our institution developed an inter-professional program aimed at reducing all-cause 30-day readmissions for patients admitted with AECOPD. Methods: We iteratively developed and piloted our inter-professional COPD HRRP […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (AECOPD) is the third leading cause of readmissions and is now included in the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). Our institution developed an inter-professional program aimed at reducing all-cause 30-day readmissions for patients admitted with AECOPD. Methods: We iteratively developed and piloted our inter-professional COPD HRRP […]
Abstract Number: 248
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: In shared decision making models, decisional conflict is a measure of uncertainty and readiness and comfort level in making a decision. The literature examining decisional conflict is currently relatively immature. The act of a patient being readmitted is, in part, an effect of multiple small decisions a patient makes in the time between index […]