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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"30-Day Readmissions"”.
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Avoiding 30-day Readmissions of Acute MI Patients Utilizing Cardiac Rehabilitation
… an urban San Francisco Medical Center within 5-7 days post discharge this year. Two of the main identified causes were symptom management issues and medication instructions, both of which are part of the discharge instructions. It’s not surprising that 80% of all discharge teaching is forgotten by …
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Preventing 30-Day Readmissions of Clostridium difficile Patients Utilizing Targeted Discharge Instructions
… hospitals for targeted conditions leading to 30-day readmissions beginning in October 2012. Annually, CMS has focused attention on conditions that endanger patient health and welfare while secondarily attempting to reduce the excessive financial expenditures in care related to 30-day …
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Annual incidence of traumatic brain injury among Ontario adults with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities and 30-day readmissions
… (TBI) incidence and the impact of TBI history on 30-day readmissions. Objectives: 1) compare TBI incidence between adults with and without IDD over time and by demographic characteristics; 2) compare odds of 30-day readmissions between adults with IDD, history of TBI, or both in 2016/17. …
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Factors Related to 30-Day Readmission among Hispanics with Type 2 Diabetes
… Medicare spends $17 billion yearly on 30-day readmissions. Hispanic adults have a higher prevalence of diabetes (12.6%) compared to non-Hispanic whites (9.4%). Those with a diagnosis of diabetes have the 17% higher rate (14-23%) for 30-day readmission. Little research has been conducted …
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Does Participation in the Community Integrated Healthcare Program Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions
… its effectiveness in reducing heart failure 30-day readmissions compared to usual care. BACKGROUND: Heart failure is the leading cause of 30-day readmissions in the country with a rate of approximately 21.9%. Heart failure affects 6.2 million Americans and the incidence is expected to grow to …
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Reducing 30-Day Hospital Readmission In The Older Homebound Population: Using An Interprofessional Communication Protocol Within A Multidisciplinary Hospital At Home Program
… and older are at the highest risk for avoidable 30-day hospital readmission: a factor contributing to rising healthcare costs and comprising over 30% of Medicare’s spending. The Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) deemed that one in five patients that were discharged from the hospital …
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Evaluation of Clinical Pharmacy Impact on Multiple Internal Medicine Teams Utilizing Alternative Rounding Strategies
… are to evaluate the change in length of stay and 30 – day readmissions and to compare the types of interventions and cost savings between the two different rounding strategies. Methods: This is a randomized retrospective cross-over study, evaluating alternative rounding strategies at a single …
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Reducing 30-Day Readmission Rates For Copd Patients: A Care Standardization & Quality Improvement Project
… of COPD are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. The quality of care delivered to COPD patients is often suboptimal and fragmented, contributing to unfavorable patient outcomes, and high rates of readmissions. The purpose of this DNP project was to reduce 30-day readmissions …
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Preventing Hospital Readmission In The Sepsis Patient: A Multi-Modal Discharge National Framework
<p>Sepsis, the leading cause of hospital readmissions in the United States, accounts for $23.7 billion of aggregate costs. The Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) requires hospitals to provide efficient patient discharge coordination to prevent readmissions or risk financial …
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Impact of technology on patient discharge decision making
… healthcare facilities are readmitted within 30 days at a cost of roughly $42 billion dollars per year to insurance providers. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) create a network of healthcare providers aimed at improving the quality of patient care within a new 'pay for performance' …
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Evaluation of the Role of Adjunctive Corticosteroids in the Management of Children Hospitalized with Orbital Cellulitis
… emergency department (ED) revisits, and hospital readmissions between children who did or did not receive corticosteroids. Results Of 2,963 children hospitalized with orbital cellulitis who met inclusion criteria, 587 (19.8 %) received systemic corticosteroids. In the matched cohort, there were …
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Associations Among End-Of-Life Discussions, Healthcare Utilization And Costs, And Race/ethnicity In Persons With Serious Illness
… with timing of PCC before death (PCC 0-14 days before death, n = 612; PCC 15-60 days before death, n = 292; PCC more than 60 days before death, n = 237) among deceased persons who received PCC (Chapter 4). Secondary analysis included demographic, clinical, and financial data of patients 18+ …
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Transitional Care Coach Program Evaluation at a Southwest Urban Medical Center
In an effort to reduce hospital 30-day readmissions a Transitional Care Coach Program (TCCP) was developed in 2014 at a Southwest Urban Medical Center. The CDC Framework for Program Evaluation (2012) applies insight and experience gained from past program experience to effect change in practice and …
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Impact of Systematizing the Evaluation of Patients with Acute Heart Failure Presenting to the Emergency Department
… patients seen in cardiology clinic within 7 days. The primary outcome was the proportion of ED discharges, with safety and efficiency assessed by 30-day readmission rates after ED discharge and the proportion of short hospitalizations (<48 hours). Among 1100 eligible patients (mean [SD] age, …
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Transitional Care to Reduce 30-day Heart Failure Readmissions Among the Long-Term Care Elderly Population
… increased focus on reducing preventable hospital readmissions. This initiative started with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) (CMS, 2014), which sets forth certain provisions for Medicare spending. Hospitals with higher than usual readmission rates, especially in terms of …
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Workplace Bullying, Nurse Practice Environment, Patient Outcomes: A Descriptive Study
… unit based patient safety rates. Patient falls, 30-day readmissions, medication errors, pressure injuries, overall patient satisfaction, and whether patients would recommend the hospital were averaged by patient unit and assigned to each nurse based on unit association. Following descriptive …
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The Effectiveness of a Structured Telephone Support Program for Rural Patients with Heart Failure
… and quality of life and to reduce anxiety, 30 day readmission rates, and mortality rates in rural patients with heart failure. A quasi experimental one group pretest, posttest design was used to determine the effectiveness of a structured telephone program. A convenience sample of thirty …
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Super-Utilization: The New Perfect Storm of Health Reform
… attributed to beneficiaries with four or more 30-day readmissions per year. The overall purpose of the research was to identify geographic areas at increased risk for HRU. These areas corresponded to where beneficiaries live and were aligned with the geographically-bound healthcare delivery …