In the face of lower inpatient utilization, hospitals and health systems can drive more business to their hospitals as well as outpatient surgery centers by developing regional referral centers. These ...

Patient safety in ambulatory care has not been routinely measured. California implemented a pay-for-performance program in safety-net hospitals that incentivized measurement and improvement in key ...

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We previously implemented paper-based screening for health-related social resource needs (HRSN) in our gynecologic oncology clinic and found that 36% of patients who completed the screening reported ...

A new national program from Aetna that seeks to lower the number of out-of-network referrals for outpatient surgical procedures will actively alert both members and their doctors if they are leaving ...

A descriptive analysis of specialty referral patterns in an academic, internal medicine patient-centered medical home (PCMH). ABSTRACTObjectives: Characterize patterns of referral from a ...

Patients often self-refer to the emergency department (ED) for management of an ambulatory care–sensitive condition, and the ED may be the most appropriate care location. Objectives: To characterize ...

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Referral management schemes fail to cut down outpatient attendances and incur significant costs, a UK study has revealed. The three-year study, from April 2009 to March 2012 and published in the ...

Assessing the Landscape in Medical Education Literature in Medical Oncology: A Scoping Review We previously implemented paper-based screening for health-related social resource needs (HRSN) in our ...