Health
Role of chronic medical conditions in readmissions
Researchers cite identification and monitoring of known underlying chronic medical conditions as opportunities to reduce readmission rates and improve patient safety.
Dec 23, 2013
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Top hospitals reduce readmissions by preventing complications across all diagnoses
Checking back into the hospital within 30 days of discharge is not only bad news for patients, but also for hospitals, which now face financial penalties for high readmissions. The key to reducing readmissions may be focusing ...
Nov 20, 2013
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Diabetes
Inpatient diabetes education linked to lower readmissions
(HealthDay)—Inpatients diagnosed with diabetes who receive inpatient diabetes education (IDE) have significantly lower frequency of all-cause hospital readmission within 30 days, according to a study published in the October ...
Oct 18, 2013
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Same-hospital readmission rate an unreliable predictor for all-hospital readmission rate
Approximately one in five Medicare patients are rehospitalized within 30 days of discharge.* The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) considers this rate excessive, and began reducing payments to hospitals that ...
Oct 8, 2013
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Hospital readmission rates linked with quality of surgical care
Reducing hospital readmission rates is an important clinical and policy priority but whether those rates really measure the quality of hospital care isn't clear. In a new study, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health ...
Sep 18, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Memory problems, emotional stress result in early readmissions of heart patients
Heart patients' mental state and thinking abilities may help predict whether costly and potentially dangerous early hospital readmission will follow their release after treatment, according to the results of a significant ...
Sep 17, 2013
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Surgery
Unplanned readmission common after spine fusion
(HealthDay)—For patients undergoing spine fusion for adult spinal deformity, unplanned hospital readmissions are relatively common and are often related to surgical site infections, according to a study published in the ...
Sep 11, 2013
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Surgery
Examination of hospital readmissions after plastic surgery aims to cut costs, enhance patient care
For patients undergoing plastic and reconstructive surgery procedures, obesity, anemia and postoperative complications—especially surgical and wound complications—are independent risk factors for hospital readmission, ...
Aug 29, 2013
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Enhanced recovery pathway for gynecologic surgery gets patients back to health faster
Patients who had complex gynecologic surgery managed by an enhanced recovery pathway (ERP) resulted in decreased narcotic use, earlier discharge, stable readmission rates, excellent patient satisfaction and cost savings, ...
Aug 26, 2013
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Pediatrics
Pediatric readmission rates aren't indicator of hospital performance
Readmission rates of adult patients to the same hospital within 30 days are an area of national focus and a potential indicator of clinical failure and unnecessary expenditures.
Aug 26, 2013
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