“A new study by the Association of Community Cancer Centers finds that very few hospitals are monitoring readmissions or following up with discharged patients.
The study of cancer patients’ transitions from inpatient to outpatient settings also found that while 85% of responding hospitals had a process to manage patients between-care settings, only 55% had a written transition policy, while only 3% had a specific transition policy that applied specifically to oncology patients.”
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Alicia Ault, Internal Medicine News, 17 December 2010
