Heard this week

“On the surface, it may seem like a reasonable thing to penalize hospitals that don’t successfully ‘get their patients better enough’ to avoid readmission. However, the problem is highly complicated, and such a crude way of thinking about the problem (i.e., blaming it all on the hospital and the doctors) obscures from many of the real issues behind high readmission rates.”

- Suneel Dhand, MD, discusses practical solutions to reducing readmissions in a post on KevinMD.