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References: Specialty Care, Surgery, and Remote Monitoring

  1. Hospital Readmission - Wikipedia - Explains 30-day readmission measurement, risk factors, and penalty programs, providing the clinical and policy background behind this chapter's Readmission Risk node and its comorbidity, length-of-stay, and disposition inputs.

  2. Remote Patient Monitoring - Wikipedia - Covers how connected devices transmit physiologic data to clinicians, directly grounding the chapter's Wearable Device Data, Remote Patient Monitoring, and Telehealth Visit graph pattern in real-world clinical practice.

  3. Palliative Care - Wikipedia - Defines specialized comfort- and quality-of-life-focused care for serious illness, supporting the chapter's treatment of Palliative Care as a parallel, non-diagnostic care model distinct from behavioral health screening pathways.

  4. Applied Logistic Regression (3rd Edition) - David W. Hosmer Jr., Stanley Lemeshow, and Rodney X. Sturdivant - Wiley - Credited for the Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test, the standard calibration check clinicians use when validating the kind of multi-factor readmission-risk scoring models this chapter introduces.

  5. Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine (6th Edition) - Nathan I. Cherny, Marie T. Fallon, Stein Kaasa, Russell K. Portenoy, and David C. Currow - Oxford University Press - The consensus text credited with establishing palliative medicine as a distinct discipline, framing the goals-of-care approach this chapter models as separate from disease-focused diagnosis.

  6. Hospital Readmissions - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - AHRQ's overview of readmission measurement and reduction strategies, including the Re-Engineered Discharge approach, illustrating the real operational stakes behind the chapter's Care Transition and Readmission Risk nodes.

  7. Remote Patient Monitoring - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Official CMS guidance on Medicare's remote physiologic monitoring benefit, detailing device requirements and billable components that mirror the chapter's Wearable Device Data and Remote Patient Monitoring graph relationships.

  8. PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire-9) Calculator - MDCalc - Presents the validated nine-item depression screening instrument and its scoring thresholds, the exact standardized tool this chapter cites as an example of a Mental Health Screening node feeding a Behavioral Health Condition.

  9. Patient Portals: An Online Tool for Your Health - MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine) - A plain-language government explainer of how patients use portals to message providers, view results, and manage records, matching the chapter's description of the Patient Portal as an aggregating node.

  10. Final Rule: 42 CFR Part 2, Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records - American Psychiatric Association - Summarizes the federal confidentiality protections this chapter cites as the reason Substance Use Disorder nodes require additional access governance beyond standard condition data.