Mount Sinai Health System

Best Case/Worst Case: A Multisite Randomized Trial of Scenario Planning for Patients With Late‐Stage Kidney Disease

BACKGROUND: Best Case/Worst Case (BC/WC) is a communication tool to support nephrologists and older adults with advanced chronic kidney disease with decisions about dialysis. We compared the effectiveness of training nephrologists to use BC/WC versus usual care on receipt of pall...

Longitudinal shifts in diabetes care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for post-pandemic models of chronic disease management

Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly disrupted chronic disease management, including diabetes care. While early studies described short-term changes in access to care and laboratory monitoring, the long-term evolution of diabetes care delivery remains poorly under...

Analyzing the Effect of Nurse-Led Follow-Up Calls to Reduce Emergency Department Readmissions in Older Adults

PURPOSE: To evaluate whether nurse-led follow-up calls after emergency department (ED) discharge were associated with decreased 30-day ED revisits and hospital admissions among older adults in two geriatric practices. METHOD: The current retrospective quality improvement evaluati...