How hospitals can avoid readmissions
An interview by Curaspan Health Group with Stephen Jencks, MD, MPH.
Stephen Jencks is lead author of the 2009 landmark study of the multibillion-dollar cost of readmissions, says there’s “been a great deal of movement” on readmissions since his work was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, but there’s more that hospitals and communities can do.
Dr. Jencks, an independent consultant in health-care safety and quality, and …
