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Article: Project BOOST seeks to improve care transitions.
- Article from:
- Medical Ethics Advisor
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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Project BOOST seeks to improve care transitions
Approach was to create a national consensus
With the recognition by hospitalists that improvements needed to be made in transitions in care, primarily focusing on the discharge process to prevent readmissions, the Society of Hospital Medicine has set out to make those improvements.
The society is attempting to build a national consensus for best practices through what it calls Project BOOST (Better Outcomes for Older adults through Safe Transitions).
"This [project] was an outgrowth of the efforts by the Society of Hospital Medicine to improve care for geriatric patients in recognition ...