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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"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, residential …
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Thirty-Day Readmissions after Early versus Delayed Discharge after Uncomplicated Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights from the Nationwide Readmissions Database
Early discharge after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has generally shown to be safe; however, studies have been limited to single centers or trial populations, making their generalizability unclear. This study sought to examine the rate of rehospitalization after early vs. late …
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Factors Associated with Asthma Readmissions in Children's Hospitals
… and costs of care have risen in recent years. Readmissions, an adverse outcome often used to monitor quality of care, may account for the increase in asthma hospitalization rates. This research examined selected hospital and patient risk factors related to asthma readmissions, using …
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Psychosocial Support, Newborn Readmissions, and Postpartum Follow-up
… providers and the rate of normal newborn readmissions. In addition, a cost-benefit analysis was performed to compare the costs of the intervention to the costs for normal newborn readmissions to establish whether such interventions are worthwhile from an economic viewpoint.</p> …
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Sepsis Discharge Program: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Reduce Sepsis Readmissions
… goal of this DNP project was to reduce sepsis readmissions for patients identified as high risk for readmission using a standardized, safe discharge program (SDP) and implement it using a dynamic interdisciplinary collaborative approach. Given the lack of historical baseline data, the program …
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Minimizing Inpatient Readmissions Through the Use of Discharge Phone Calls
… to improve the patient experience and prevent readmissions (D’Amore et al., 2011). Discharge phone call provides an opportunity for the patient to ask questions, while allowing healthcare providers to assess the patient’s understanding of the discharge instructions. We piloted the discharge …
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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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MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AS A PREDICTOR OF HOSPITAL UTILIZATION AND READMISSIONS
… 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 classified …
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Avoiding 30-day Readmissions of Acute MI Patients Utilizing Cardiac Rehabilitation
… as early as 48 hours post discharge can prevent readmissions by enhancing the patient/family’s retention and understanding of discharge instructions that include symptom management and medication </p>
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Preventing 30-Day Readmissions of Clostridium difficile Patients Utilizing Targeted Discharge Instructions
… 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 readmissions. …
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Factors Associated with 30-day Hospital Readmissions Among Older Adults with Dementia
… other factors that contribute to 30-day hospital readmissions (HR) among older adults with any type of diagnosed dementia.</p> <p><strong>Methods: </strong>This descriptive cross-sectional correlation study used an existing electronic health record (EHR) database of adults aged 50 years or older …
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Evaluation of a Discharge Medication Assistance Program (DMAP) to Reduce Psychiatric Readmissions
… 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 discharge. Further limitations are …
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Does Participation in the Community Integrated Healthcare Program Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions
… 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 8 …
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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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Implementing a Rib Fracture Management Pathway and PIC Scoring Tool to Reduce ICU Readmissions
… expertise to reduce Intensive Care Unit (ICU) readmissions, costs, complications and length of stay (LOS). Analysis of the data revealed 55% of ICU readmissions were due to respiratory causes. The timeline guided the creation, deployment, and evaluation of the project over a two phase, one and …
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Examining the Relationships Between Ethnicity, Palliative Care and Readmissions in the Heart Failure Population
… ethnicity, palliative care consultation and readmissions in the heart failure population at a community hospital that serves a large diverse population.</p> <p><strong>Background:</strong> Hospitals struggle with preventing readmissions. There are many interventions that can be implemented to …
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Risk of malnutrition in hospitalized children: Association with length of stay and readmissions within 30 days
Bakgrunnur og markmið: Vannæring barna á sjúkrahúsum er algengt og oft vangreint vandamál. Vannæring getur verið til staðar við innlögn eða þróast meðan á sjúkrahúsvist stendur. Klínískar afleiðingar vannæringar geta falist í tíðari sýkingum, auknum sjúkrahúskostnaði, lengri sjúkrahúslegu og auknum …
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COPD C.A.R.E. Connect: A Systems Trajectory To Reducing COPD Readmissions In A Large National Healthcare Institution
… called “COPD C.A.R.E. (Control Avoidable REadmissions) Connect” was established within the medical surgical unit at this large national healthcare institution. The program utilized frontline expert collaboration to provide inpatient COPD-specific healthcare teachings, promote self-care, …
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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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Rate of psychiatric readmissions and associated factors at Saint John of God Psychiatric Hospital in Mzuzu, Malawi
… have also reported high rates of psychiatric readmissions. This poses challenges when providing psychiatric care to patients. Most of Malawi`s health institutions, including Saint John of God Psychiatric Hospital (SJOG), rely primarily on donor funding. In order to maximise the available donor …
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