SMA Partner Offers Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease Interdisciplinary ECHO Series

SMA partner, Constellation Quality Health, is currently offering their ECHO Series which focuses on delivering new and emerging evidenced-based treatments and initiatives impacting hypertension and cardiovascular disease in primary care settings while reducing disparities and costs. The series, which consists of a one-hour tele-ECHO clinic of didactic presentations and case...

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Dramatic Reduction in 30-Day Readmissions Through High-Risk Screening and Two-Phase Interdisciplinary Care

Objectives: Thirty-day readmissions are common, serious, and costly. Most important, often they are preventable. The purpose of this quality improvement study was to evaluate an interdisciplinary, two-phase intervention to reduce 30-day readmissions among high-risk medical patients. One or two high-risk patients were selected each weekday by a hospitalist using literature-based,…