Analysis of Healthcare Interventions That Change Patient Trajectories
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Published: November 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780833038449
Subjects: Health Care Delivery; Medical / Nursing
First sentence: A patient trajectory is the sequence of events that involves the patient with the healthcare system.
Description: Examines interventions in the healthcare system that use Electronic Medical Record Systems (EMR-S) to affect patient trajectories--i.e., the sequence of encounters a patient has with the healthcare system--by improving health and thereby reducing healthcare utilization, or by reducing a costly form of utilization (e.g., inpatient stays) and increasing a more economical form (e.g., office visits to physicians, or prescription medications).