New assessment tool designed to improve care provided at hospitals
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
A new assessment tool can help hospital medicine groups across the United States improve their patient care and make their operations more effective. The self-assessment tool is made up of 47 different characteristics of effective hospital medicine groups (HMGs) sorted into ten different principles. It outlines characteristics like the development of an annual budget, care coordination across care settings and care that respects and responds to patient and family preferences, needs and values.