Easing the Inpatient-to-Outpatient Transition: There’s Got to Be a Better Way!

MedPage Today January 18, 2022
Fred N. Pelzman, MD

— Let’s try to anticipate what’s next instead of picking up the pieces

Leaving the hospital, returning to the real world, continues to be a challenging and confusing time for patients, full of opportunities for improving and continuing their care.

Instead, what we in the medical community mostly seem to see are miscommunications and medical missteps, which, despite everybody’s best efforts, leaves us with outcomes nobody wanted.

Last week, while I was supervising internal medicine residents in their morning outpatient clinic sessions, we were looking over the schedule when one of the interns said, “Oh, I know that patient!” However, that particular patient was not on her schedule, but was instead on the schedule of another resident in practice that...

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