Innovations in ED Cut Costs of Geriatric Care | Physician's Weekly
Mar 4, 2021 Emergency departments may reap financial benefit of targeted innovations An emergency department innovation program designed for geriatric care resulted in substantial cost savings, researchers found. With such a program, those researchers, led by Ula Hwang, MD, MPH, found there was a significant association with reduced total costs of care for geriatric patients after being seen by either a transitional care nurse and/or social worker trained to deliver geriatric emergency care. Their study was published in As pointed out by Hwang and colleagues, there has been an increase in th...
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