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This article describes an intervention that trained health coaches to use mobile technology to assess the health status of recently discharged Medicare patients, first during an in-home visit 48 hours after leaving the hospital and then with weekly phone calls over a 3-week period. The program resulted in decreased readmission rates and significant cost savings.

This article describes an AHRQ-funded project to discern whether a standardized, computerized tool can improve handoff communication.

This article reports on the results from Joint Commission site inspections of five Boston-area hospitals.