A study from Indiana University and Regenstrief Institute researcher-clinicians reports on the first year of the implementation of OPTIMISTIC, an acronym for Optimizing Patient Transfers, Impacting Medical quality and Improving Symptoms: Transforming Institutional Care. The team developed and implemented this innovative program to prevent unnecessary hospitalizations of nursing facility residents. Their paper, “The OPTIMISTIC approach:… Continue reading Preventing Unnecessary Hospitalizations of Frail Older Adults