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Examining The Effects Of Approaches On Reducing Hospital Utilization: The Patient-Centered Medical Home, Continuity Of Care, And The Inpatient Palliative Consultation At The End-Of-Life, Xiaoting Sun

Theses & Dissertations

Background: It has become a national priority to reduce the high health care expenditure in the United States while improving the quality of care. Hospital care is taking up one-third of the healthcare spending, and services offered in hospitals are costly compared to others. Only one-twentieth of the patients with high-needs account for about half of the health care spending. They consuming a high level of hospital services if their conditions are not well-managed in the outpatient settings. Therefore, it is important to examine the effectiveness of the approaches that have the potentials to reduce costly care utilization through improvements …