Why the study?
Does primary care physician awareness of hospitalization affect the frequency of post-discharge problems reported by frail, older patients?
Population
Frail, older general medical patients discharged from a single academic medical center, and their primary…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
2 weeks
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PCP unawareness of hospitalization may increase post-discharge problems in frail older adults; hypothesis-generating for transition interventions.
Does primary care physician awareness of hospitalization affect the frequency of post-discharge problems reported by frail, older patients?
Frail older patients are significantly more likely to experience post-discharge problems when their primary care physician is unaware of their hospitalization, highlighting the need for better care transitions.
Arora et al. (2010) studied this question.
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