Alan Spielman describes how poor transitions of care impact patient safety and quality of care and what policymakers can do to help.
Poor transitions, especially with vulnerable seniors, represent a threat to patient safety, decrease consumer confidence in the health care system and waste scarce resources. NTOCC wants policy makers to better understand the significant challenges the system faces in transitional care. We have banded together to solve this industry problem and want to provide information to decrease break downs in communication and ineffective transitions of patients from one setting to another. NTOCC seeks to advance patient safety and improve care delivery by creating resources policy makers can use to help them raise awareness of this significant problem and guide them as they shape legislation and policies.
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