{"id":35179,"date":"2013-03-10T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T12:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=fellowship-training&#038;p=35179"},"modified":"2013-03-10T10:29:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T14:29:15","slug":"the-real-question-around-hospital-reducing-readmission-blogging-from-acc-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2013\/03\/10\/the-real-question-around-hospital-reducing-readmission-blogging-from-acc-13\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Question About Reducing Hospital Readmissions: Blogging from ACC.13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Several Cardiology Fellows who are attending ACC.13 in San Francisco this week are blogging for CardioExchange. The Fellows include\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/tariqahmad627\/\"><strong>Tariq Ahmad<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/megancoylewright\/\"><strong>Megan Coylewright<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/jeremiahdepta943\/\">Jeremiah Depta<\/a>,\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/kumardharmarajan775\/\">Kumar Dharmarajan<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/payalkohli874\/\">Payal Kohli<\/a><\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0and \u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/sandeepmangalmurti663\/\">Sandeep Mangalmurti<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<em>\u00a0View the previous post\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/fellowship-training\/thinking-about-what-comes-after-fellowship-blogging-from-acc-13\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0and the next one <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/fellowship-training\/you-are-my-sunshine-blogging-from-acc-13\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>Interesting series of questions from the session <a href=\"Meet the Experts.215.Readmission: All You Need to Know about Successful Transitions of Care   \">\u201cReadmission: All You\u00a0Need to Know about Successful Transitions of Care\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To reduce rehospitalization, should we be putting patients through a\u00a0simulation lab prior to discharge? What \u201cstations\u201d should we include?\u00a0And what would we do with the data? For example, what would be the\u00a0appropriate intervention for a patient that was unable to use the\u00a0telephone to make a follow up visit? What if we saw that the patient\u00a0was unable to open a pill box?<\/p>\n<p>The real question: How do we best align our inpatient assessments with patients&#8217; real stresses and challenges after hospital discharge?<\/p>\n<p><em>For\u00a0<\/em><em>more of our ACC.13 coverage of late-breaking clinical trials, interviews with the authors of the most important research, and blogs from our fellows on the most interesting presentations at the meeting, check out our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/voices\/acc-13-headquarters\/\">Coverage Headquarters<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do we best align our inpatient assessments with patients&#8217; real stresses and challenges after hospital discharge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":544,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1711,700],"class_list":["post-35179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-acc-13","tag-hospital-readmissions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}