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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Hospital readmission"”.
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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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An Analytics Approach To Reducing Hospital Readmission
… Unites States health care systems is preventable hospital readmission. About 2.3 million Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries are re-hospitalized within 30 days after discharge which incurs an annual cost of $17 billion. However, it is reported by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission that …
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Implementing Risk Tools to Prevent Hospital Readmission
<p>Implementing Risk Tools to Prevent Hospital Readmission</p> <p>Tara O’Connor</p> <p>Abstract</p> <p><strong>Background: </strong>Readmission reduction is one of the most important opportunities for reducing cost in today’s health care system.</p> <p><strong>Global Aim:</strong> To operationalize …
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Hospital readmission prediction with long clinical notes
… on clinical text and is able to predict 30-day hospital readmission from clinical notes. Although the performance is good, it suffers from a limitation on the size of the text sequence that is fed as input to the model. Models using longer sequences have been shown to perform better on different …
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Reducing Early Hospital Readmission Rates After Bariatric Surgery
<p>The prevalence of 30-day readmission after bariatric surgery is 0.6% to 11.3%, with a single hospital readmission nearly tripling the average 180-day cost of the surgery. Given that nearly 50% of early readmissions are preventable, close postoperative follow-up may allow for early identification …
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Multimodal AI for Hospital Readmission Prediction Among Older Adults
… intelligence (AI) model to predict 30-day hospital readmission risk among older adults, including those receiving home care. The aim is to create a robust predictive framework that leverages comprehensive patient data collected during hospitalisation to enhance risk assessment and clinical …
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Adult Postoperative Open-Heart Patients: Anemia and 30-Day Hospital Readmission
… 4% (3.9 million) of patients discharged from a hospital were readmitted. Anemia following a surgical procedure is associated with early hospital readmission.</p> <p><strong>Purpose/Aims. </strong> The following were specific aims of this dissertation:</p> <ul> <li>Aim 1. To develop an …
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The Effects of Partial Hospitalization on Acute Psychiatric Hospital Readmission Days
… a combination of partial and acute psychiatric hospitalization and only acute psychiatric hospitalization on the total number of acute hospital readmission days over a 12 month period using a causal-comparative design. Two hundred and forty cases were randomly selected from an existing database …
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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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Exploration of the Evidence to Support Clinical Practice to Decrease Hospital Readmission Rates For Patients With Chronic Pancreatitis
… with chronic pancreatitis frequently require hospital readmission for complications of this debilitating disease. However, despite the negative impact on patients' quality of life and costs related to high utilization of health care resources, practice guidelines do not exist for management of …
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Increasing Patient Satisfaction and Decreasing Hospital Readmission Due to Deep Venous Thrombosis by Providing Anticoagulation Education for Orthopedic Patients
… (MS), 50-bed unit in a medium size hospital. Because orthopedic patients are at high risk to develop DVT postoperatively, proper anticoagulants and anticoagulation education is an important aspect of patient care. By implementing a well-designed and easy-to-read patient handout on …
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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
… 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 were …
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Effect of Obesity on Outcomes following Total Hip/Total Knee Arthroplasty among Medicare Beneficiaries with Osteoarthritis
… discharge from the IRF including 30-day hospital readmissions, the reasons for readmission and mortality within the duration of the study period. The study population was Medicare beneficiaries 65 years and older, with osteoarthritis, who underwent elective primary total hip (THA) or …
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Public-private partnerships: an evaluation of propositions for successful community coalitions
… (i.e., improving community outcomes by reducing hospital readmission rates and improving coordination of patient care). Method: A survey was conducted and included a variety of coalition building propositions to measure coalition members' perceptions of coalition success. The survey questions …
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Impact of Diabetes Comorbidity on Health Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Medical Rehabilitation after Lower Extremity Joint Arthroplasty
… of discharge to acute care, and 90-day hospital readmission. Methods: Secondary analysis of Medicare data. We selected patients who underwent a primary hip/knee joint replacement procedure during 2007-2008. We identified diabetes-related ICD-9CM codes in the Medicare Provider Analysis …
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Physical function transitions and the role of social determinants of health on functional recovery after an acute hospitalization among older Mexican Americans
… predict physical function recovery after acute hospitalization over a 12-year period; and 3) evaluate the effect of social determinants of health on disability recovery and 30-day readmission after acute hospitalization over a 12-year period. This is a prospective cohort study of …
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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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Predictive Risk Modelling of Hospital Emergency Readmission, and Temporal Comorbidity Index Modelling Using Machine Learning Methods
… applications of machine learning techniques in hospital emergency readmission and comorbidity risk problems, using healthcare administrative data. The aim is to introduce generic and robust solution approaches that can be applied to different healthcare settings. Existing solution methods and …
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Evaluating Comorbidity Indices for Predicting Post-Acute Outcomes
… the presence of comorbid conditions during acute hospitalization. Thus, poor management of comorbidities can lead to undesired outcomes such as preventable hospital readmissions. A valid comorbidity index is needed to adjust for adverse effects of comorbidities on post-acute outcomes. However, …
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