{"id":1052907,"date":"2010-05-18T08:15:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T08:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/hospitalist-evolution-extensivist-hospitalist-who-prevents-readmissions-by-seeing-patients-after-discharge\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:46:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:46:46","slug":"hospitalist-evolution-extensivist-hospitalist-who-prevents-readmissions-by-seeing-patients-after-discharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/hospitalist-evolution-extensivist-hospitalist-who-prevents-readmissions-by-seeing-patients-after-discharge.php","title":{"rendered":"Hospitalist evolution? &quot;Extensivist&quot; = hospitalist who prevents readmissions by seeing patients after discharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2608\/483\/1600\/65905_47871.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/dd332_65905_47871.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\"On a typical morning, Sandip Patel, MD, a hospitalist employed by a health plan in Southern California, rounds on patients at the hospital, then meets with case managers and a medical director to review care plans and decide which patients will stay or go.<\/p><p>In the afternoon, Dr. Patel may see recently discharged patients&mdash;those coded \"red\" or \"yellow,\" based on medical complexity&mdash;at an integrated-care center, which is also owned and run by the health plan. Then he might head to a nursing home to check on patients discharged a week ago.<\/p><p>Dr. Patel considers himself an \"extensivist\" with a goal to reduce readmissions. \"Lowering readmission rates is within the purview of the hospitalists.\"<\/p><p>References:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayshospitalist.com\/index.php?b=articles_read&amp;cnt=960\">Health-plan hospitalists cut readmissions&mdash;by sometimes leaving the hospital<\/a>. Today's Hospitalist, 2010.<\/p><div><span>Image source: <a href=\"http:\/\/sxc.hu\/browse.phtml?f=view&amp;id=65905\">sxc.hu<\/a><\/span><\/div><div><p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/\">Clinical Cases and Images<\/a>. 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