Keeping patients at home can cut errors

Mt. Sinai in New York began an experimental program to deliver hospital-level care at home


A program Mt. Sinai in New York launched to deliver hospital-level care at home resulted in a dip in medical errors, according to an article on the OPB FM website.

Research shows that care at home is cheaper and a person is 19 percent more likely to be alive six months after receiving treatment at home than in a hospital.

Mt. Sinai’s Dr. Linda DeCherrie said people fare better outside the hospital because in the hospital, patients fall, catch so-called super bugs or turn up their noses at the meals. 

Hospital-at-home programs are currently limited, largely because Medicare refuses to cover the service.

Read the article.

 

 



June 15, 2016


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