by Carolyn Thomas     ♥    @HeartSisters

Hospital discharge is a critically important (yet shockingly under-valued) transition stage of good healthcare.

Goodbye, hospital. Hello, home! And other scary things.

“Best we can tell, hospital re-admission has to do with largely unmeasured hospital events, including patient preparation for discharge, transitional care, coordination and collaboration among providers, communication between patients and their clinicians and others, and even perhaps the degree to which errors or poor nutrition or inactivity or poor sleep occurred during the hospitalization.”