Background: Measures to reduce hospital readmissions help to improve the quality of care patients receive, as well as reduce healthcare costs. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Triple Aim of improving the quality of care through standardization, decreasing the cost of care by reducing hospital utilization, and patient-centeredness around transitions of care, resonate strongly with readmission […]

Case Presentation: A 30‐year‐old man originally from New Guinea presented to the hospital with two hours of palpitations associated with lightheadedness and diaphoresis. He had a similar presentation 10 years prior and was told there was an “abnormal bump in his heart” which required treatment with antibiotics. Since that hospitalization, the patient experienced brief episodes […]