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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Hospital Readmissions"”.
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Health Literacy and Psychiatric Hospital Readmissions
… between health literacy and psychiatric hospital readmissions, identified differences in readmission rates between health literacy groups, and explored the best predictors of hospital readmission from among selected demographic characteristics (social support, gender, ethnicity, …
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A Multi-Method Analysis of Hospital Readmissions and Medicare Penalties
Hospital readmissions can worsen patient outcomes and contribute to substantial healthcare costs. Because many readmissions are considered preventable, reducing them has become a national priority in the United States, with Medicare penalizing hospitals whose readmission rates exceed benchmarks. …
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Factors Associated with 30-day Hospital Readmissions Among Older Adults with Dementia
… to rise since patients often require frequent hospitalizations to treat symptoms related to comorbid conditions. The increased frequency of hospitalization results in more care transitions that create strain upon patients, their families, and the overall health care system with a poorer …
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Project BOOST and Cardiovascular Disease Readmissions in a Rural Acute Care Facility
Hospital readmissions are a source of reduced payment as mandated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The number of dollars used for hospital readmissions has sky rocketed above $17 million for heart failure alone. The changes in the ACA …
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The Lived Experience of Discharged and Readmitted African Americans with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease to a Safety-Net Hospital
… COPD as an applicable condition to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, which penalizes healthcare organizations having readmissions higher than the national average. COPD is the second leading cause of hospital readmissions with a projected cost of $101 billion by 2020. Simply …
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Transitional Care to Reduce 30-day Heart Failure Readmissions Among the Long-Term Care Elderly Population
… is an 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 …
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Reducing Medication Errors by Systematically Monitoring High-Risk Medications
… adverse drug reactions (ADR) that lead to hospital readmissions. The cost of one adverse drug reaction, leading to a hospital readmission, can vary from US$2200 to US$8300, depending on the severity of the reaction. In one study, the patients who were admitted for preventable ADRs were four …
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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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MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AS A PREDICTOR OF HOSPITAL UTILIZATION AND READMISSIONS
Although frequent hospitalization and unplanned hospital readmissions are considered a marker of poor quality care for older adults, healthcare studies have neglected mild cognitive impairment (MCI) as a potential contributor to high cost utilization. This study explored whether a) older adults …
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Evolution Of A 90-Day Model Of Care For Bundled Episodic Payments For Congestive Heart Failure In Home Care
… cost from waste and variation and stand to align hospitals, physicians and post acute providers in the redesign of care that achieves savings and improve quality. Community-based organizations are at the forefront of this care redesign through innovative models of care aimed at bridging gaps in …
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Evaluation of an Early Discharge Policy For Infants With Apnea of Prematurity
… family and the potential effect on the infant's hospital discharge. The evaluation of this policy is based on the conceptual framework of effectiveness, efficiency, and equity in health care. Results were used to generate policy recommendations.This is a retrospective case study of 933 infants …
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Readmission Factors of Patients with Type II Diabetes
<p>Background: Hospital readmissions within 30 days of initial discharge occur frequently, but relatively limited research has focused on patients with diabetes. The problem of diabetes among hospitalized patients is significant, costly, and some are considered preventable. Unfortunately, there is …
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Evaluation of a Discharge Medication Assistance Program (DMAP) to Reduce Psychiatric Readmissions
… a mental illness are readmitted to a psychiatric hospital within 30 days. Hospital readmissions to inpatient psychiatric hospitals are costly, averaging $7,200 per readmission. Major challenges of inpatient psychiatric care are nonadherence to medication and transition of follow-up care upon …
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Subjective social status and its associations with social vulnerabilities and health
… increased risk of 1) cardiovascular disease; 2) hospital readmissions and barriers to health care access; and 3) social vulnerabilities that affect health care access. Having high perceived status in the community appears to mitigate the experience of social vulnerabilities through the ability to …
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Transitional Care Services: A Nurse-Led Quality Improvement Project
… effective, Dignity Health (DH) as part of the hospital engagement network (HEN) launched an initiative called the “No Harm” campaign to reduce all-cause avoidable hospital readmissions. The project, led by a Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) student and readmission team, sought to achieve a …
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Predicting 30-Day Unplanned ICU Readmissions Using Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing Techniques: A MIMIC IV Data Analysis
… 30-day all- cause intensive care unit (ICU) hospital readmissions using the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC IV) dataset. Structured data consisting of demographic information, comorbidities, lab results, and vital signs are combined with features extracted from medical text …
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Modelling intermediate care services as part of an integrated care pathway
… policy interventions - intermediate care - on hospital admissions, waiting times and length of stay of all patients. We tested and compared a number of alternative intervention points using a simulation model parameterised with service component data from the Department of Health Information …
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Improving Patient Care Outcomes to Reduce Recurrent Admissions of Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
… to manage patients with COPD, leading to hospital readmissions. Implementation of standards of care for the improvement of health-related quality of life (HRQL) of COPD patients is intended to reduce the rate of adverse events and hospital readmissions. Method: The project was implemented …
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Decreasing 30-Day Readmission Rates In Patients With Heart Failure
… Heart Failure is one of the leading causes of hospital readmissions. Heart Failure affects approximately 6.2 million adults in the United States and costs the nation an estimated $30.7 billion each year (Farmarkis, 2017). Prevalence is projected to increase 25% by 2030 (Savarese, 2017). …
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Hospital readmission risk
Hospital readmissions are a significant challenge in healthcare, as they lead to in creased costs, higher risk of mortality, treatment complications, and patient dis tress. This minor dissertation, set within the South African healthcare framework, investigates the potential of both traditional …
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