Quality

Is Your Hospital Medicine Group a Good Candidate for Project BOOST?


 

Does your team have:

  • Eagerness to improve their discharge processes and reduce unnecessary readmissions and avoidable adverse events in the post-discharge period?
  • A multidisciplinary team in place capable of working collaboratively to redesign existing care processes?
  • A dedicated leader to manage the process of tailoring the BOOST intervention to your site’s needs and implementing BOOST?
  • Support of at least one executive sponsor who can meet with the team monthly?
  • Access to data support personnel needed to collect baseline and post-implementation data?

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