{"id":2974,"date":"2014-09-15T15:40:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T20:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2014-09-15T15:40:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T20:40:03","slug":"better-care-coordination-fewer-emergency-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/better-care-coordination-fewer-emergency-visits\/","title":{"rendered":"Better care coordination, fewer emergency visits<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Patients with chronic conditions other than mental illness are less likely to be admitted to hospital if their care is co-ordinated, a metanalysis shows.\u00a0<\/span>This review of the literature also shows that among the elderly, such strategies decreased emergency department use by 31 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Care coordination happens when physicians stop being the sole care provider, and a multidisciplinary team (such as social workers, nurses, occupational therapists) work together to take care of a patient.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/content\/early\/2014\/09\/15\/cmaj.140289.abstract?sid=68f70812-6c64-4a3a-9083-b09da7c30ff9\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Canadian Medical Association Journal<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>on\u00a0<strong>September 15, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sharon E. Straus, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael\u2019s Hospital, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients with chronic conditions other than mental illness are less likely to be admitted to hospital if their care is co-ordinated, a metanalysis shows.\u00a0This review of the literature also shows that among the elderly, such strategies decreased emergency department use by 31 per cent. Care coordination happens when physicians stop being the sole care provider, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,53,50,476],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-ontario","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-LY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2975,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}