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Showing 1 to 20 of 161 for “"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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CHF Education and Readmission Reduction
… To improve patient care and help reduce CHF readmissions by addressing CHF patient education among nursing staff.</p> <p><strong>Specific Aim: </strong>We aim to improve patient self-care and safety, and decrease the readmission rate for persons admitted with CHF at MSJMC by enhancing the …
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Readmission Reduction Of 1st Year Transplant Recipients
<p>Abstract Readmission Reduction of 1st Year Transplant Recipients Clear communication with patients at their health-literacy level improves patient outcomes, fosters trust, and is associated with readmission reduction. Readmission of transplant recipients are correlated with morbidity, medical …
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An Analytics Approach To Reducing Hospital Readmission
… 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 about 75% …
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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
… 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 ML …
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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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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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Multimodal AI for Hospital Readmission Prediction Among Older Adults
… (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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Factors that Impact Readmission for Medicare and Medicaid HMO Inpatients
Background: Hospital readmission is an outcome associated with failure of treatment because readmitted patients are still sick despite recent inpatient treatment. The specific 30-day period is critical because the U.S. Government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services uses a 30-day period for …
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Decreasing 30-Day Readmission Rates In Patients With Heart Failure
… 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). Approximately …
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A novel framework for predicting patients at risk of readmission
… for various risk score thresholds and avoid readmission of high risk patients with proper interventions. A model for predicting patients at high risk of re-admission will enable interventions to be targeted before costs have been incurred and health status have deteriorated. A risk score cut …
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Adult Postoperative Open-Heart Patients: Anemia and 30-Day Hospital Readmission
… 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 operational definition of the term <em>condition-based maintenance</em> as applied to health care and …
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The Effects of Partial Hospitalization on Acute Psychiatric Hospital Readmission Days
… 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 which contained information on a population of urban insurance beneficiaries who had accessed …
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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 on …
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Does process quality of inpatient care matter in potentially preventable readmission rates?
… thirty-day potentially preventable hospital readmission (PPR) rates. Data Sources/Study Setting: This was an observational cross-sectional study of nonfederal acute-care hospitals located in two states California and Florida, discharging Medicare patients with a principal discharge diagnosis …
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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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Examination of discharge settings and readmission rates following hospitalization for total knee arthroplasty
… growth expected. Reducing unplanned hospital readmissions has become a focal point in minimizing healthcare cost within the Medicare population through several initiatives within the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Policy changes have also impacted the availability of …
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Seeking Protection in Europe: Refugees, Human Rights, and Bilateral Agreements Linked to Readmission
… of bilateral agreements linked to the readmission of irregular migrants can hamper refugees’ access to protection, understood here as the combination of the right to non-refoulement and an individual’s right to have access to asylum procedures and effective remedies before return. The …
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