Importance Because effective interventions to reduce hospital readmissions are often expensive
to implement, a score to predict potentially avoidable readmissions may help target the …

Background Guidelines recommend the use of nutritional support during hospital stays for
medical patients (patients not critically ill and not undergoing surgical procedures) at risk of …

Practice guidelines recommend outpatient care for selected patients with non-massive
pulmonary embolism (PE), but fail to specify how these low-risk patients should be identified. …

BACKGROUND: The risk of falls is the most commonly cited reason for not providing oral
anticoagulation, although the risk of bleeding associated with falls on oral anticoagulants is still …

Importance Identification of patients at a high risk of potentially avoidable readmission allows
hospitals to efficiently direct additional care transitions services to the patients most likely to …

… Jacques Donzé research associate1 2 3, Stuart Lipsitz professor1 2, David W Bates
professor1 2 4, Jeffrey L Schnipper … Correspondence to: J Donzé donze.author@gmail.com …

Background Nutritional support in patients with cancer aims at improving quality of life. Whether
use of nutritional support is also effective in improving clinical outcomes requires further …

Background Better identification of complex patients could help to improve their care. However,
the definition of patient complexity itself is far from obvious. We conducted a narrative …

Background low patient mobility is common during hospitalisation and is associated with
adverse outcomes. To change practice, interventions should address barriers and facilitators to …

PURPOSE: Patient satisfaction is increasingly recognized as an important component of
quality. The expansion of health information technologies (HIT) might have an impact on patient …