It has become common, even fashionable, to speak of the times as disrupted. Some might even call this the cliche du jour. Of course, no one can deny that disruption describes our present condition.

Technological evolution is typically marked by gradual optimization, such as faster processors, smarter interfaces and more efficient workflows. Occasionally, a major disruption happens that ...

Discontinuity of care puts older patients at higher risk of emergency hospitalization. Older patients who experience more discontinuity of care in general practice are at higher risk of emergency ...

Objective: To determine the prevalence of medical errors related to the discontinuity of care from an inpatient to an outpatient setting, and to determine if there is an association between these ...

In fuzzy regression discontinuity (FRD) designs, the treatment effect is identified through a discontinuity in the conditional probability of treatment assignment. We show that when identification is ...

We describe 3 categories of medical errors caused by failure to implement the intended discharge plans for recently hospitalized patients. Specifically, the medical errors defined in this study are ...