New AHRQ Grantee Profile Highlights Work of Boston University’s Brian Jack, M.D., To Help Prevent Avoidable Hospital Readmissions
A new grantee profile explores how the AHRQ-funded work of Brian Jack, M.D., a professor of family medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, lowered rates of return trips to the hospital. He developed the Re-Engineered Discharge, or RED, protocol, which uses strategies to promote safer patient care and reduce avoidable hospital readmissions. AHRQ also worked with Dr. Jack to develop an implementation-ready toolkit and guide for patients (in English and Spanish) to extend his work so that health providers can apply RED and address language barriers in health care communications. Check out the profile of Dr. Jack and other AHRQ grantees who have made major advances in health services research. RELATED PUBLICATIONSTaking Care of Myself: A Guide for When I Leave the HospitalContentsUsing the GuideTaking Care of Myself: A Guide for When I Leave the Hospital is a guide that providers can use to give patients the information they need to help them care for themselves when they leave the hospital. How to use the fill-able PDF file:Note: Some Web browsers may not allow you to fill in the blanks in this PDF file. To add your personal information to the guide, you may have to save the file to your computer and open it in Adobe® Acrobat® or Acrobat Reader®. To save your additions, you have to use Adobe® Acrobat®. Follow these steps:
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How to Order A Copy of This GuideTo get a free copy of this guide, send an E-mail to the AHRQ Publications Clearinghouse at AHRQPubs@ahrq.hhs.gov or call 1-800-358-9295 and ask for AHRQ Publication No. 10-0059. For other consumer and patient materials, go to the AHRQ Web site at: http://www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/. Taking Care of Myself: A Guide for When I Leave the HospitalTo use this guide you should:
When you leave the hospital, there are a lot of things you need to do to take care of yourself. You need to see your doctor, take your medicines, exercise, eat healthy foods, and know whom to call with questions or problems. This guide helps you keep track of all the things you need to do.
What is my medical problem? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ What are my medication allergies? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Where is my pharmacy? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ What exercises are good for me? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ What should I eat? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ What activities or foods should I avoid? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ What medicines do I need to take?Each day, follow this schedule: Morning Medicines
Afternoon Medicines
Evening Medicines
Bedtime Medicines
What other medicines can I take?
When are my next appointments?
Questions for my appointmentCheck any of the boxes below and write notes to remember what to discuss with your doctor. I have questions about: ___ My medicines ________________________________________________ ___ My test results ________________________________________________ ___ My pain _____________________________________________________ ___ Feeling stressed _____________________________________________ Other questions or concerns ________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ When are my next appointments?
Questions for my appointmentCheck any of the boxes below and write notes to remember what to discuss with your doctor. I have questions about: ___ My medicines ________________________________________________ ___ My test results ________________________________________________ ___ My pain _____________________________________________________ ___ Feeling stressed _____________________________________________ ___ Other questions or concerns ____________________________________ __________________________________________________________ When are my next appointments?
Questions for my appointmentCheck any of the boxes below and write notes to remember what to discuss with your doctor. I have questions about: ___ My medicines ________________________________________________ ___ My test results ________________________________________________ ___ My pain _____________________________________________________ ___ Feeling stressed _____________________________________________ ___ Other questions or concerns ____________________________________ __________________________________________________________ When are my next appointments?
Questions for my appointmentCheck any of the boxes below and write notes to remember what to discuss with your doctor. I have questions about: ___ My medicines ________________________________________________ ___ My test results ________________________________________________ ___ My pain _____________________________________________________ ___ Feeling stressed _____________________________________________ ___ Other questions or concerns ____________________________________ __________________________________________________________ When are my next appointments?
Questions for my appointmentCheck any of the boxes below and write notes to remember what to discuss with your doctor. I have questions about: ___ My medicines ________________________________________________ ___ My test results ________________________________________________ ___ My pain _____________________________________________________ ___ Feeling stressed _____________________________________________ ___ Other questions or concerns ____________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Notes about my medical problemAbout the GuideTaking Care of Myself: A Guide for When I Leave the Hospital is adapted from the Project RED (Re-Engineered Discharge), which was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and operated by the Boston University Medical Center. Project RED showed that preparing patients to care for themselves when they leave the hospital can improve patient safety and reduce re-hospitalization rates. Giving patients an easy-to-understand discharge plan is 1 of 11 elements in the RED process. More information about Project RED and tools to support some of the other elements of the RED can be obtained at: https://www.bu.edu/fammed/projectred/ More detailed tools for implementing RED, and revisions of existing tools to ensure that diverse populations—especially patients with limited English proficiency, are now being developed. The tools will be completed by late 2012 and posted on the AHRQ Web site and the Boston University Medical Center's Project RED Web site. Page last reviewed April 2010 Page originally created April 2010 Internet Citation: Taking Care of Myself: A Guide for When I Leave the Hospital. Content last reviewed April 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/diagnosis-treatment/hospitals-clinics/goinghome/index.html |
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