Sentences with phrase «adjusted readmission»

Further analyses show risk - adjusted readmission rates to be lower in New York and higher in Florida, compared to California.

A concern is that not adjusting readmissions data for poverty or other socioeconomic factors could mislead the public into thinking that hospitals with a large share of disadvantaged patients provide lower - quality care than hospitals with more affluent patients.

Patients treated by female physicians had lower 30 - day mortality (adjusted mortality, 11.07 % vs 11.49 %; adjusted risk difference, — 0.43 %; 95 % CI, — 0.57 % to — 0.28 %; P <.001; number needed to treat to prevent 1 death, 233) and lower 30 - day readmissions (adjusted readmissions, 15.02 % vs 15.57 %; adjusted risk difference, — 0.55 %; 95 % CI, — 0.71 % to — 0.39 %; P <.001; number needed to treat to prevent 1 readmission, 182) than patients cared for by male physicians, after accounting for potential confounders.

Not exact matches

As a whole, the team found that better performance in these quality measures was not consistently associated with lower adjusted risk of readmission or death at 30 days.

Using patient level data, the researchers generated risk - adjusted rates of same - hospital and all - hospital readmissions.

Moreover, the worse the hospital - acquired anemia — or the more blood lost — the higher the risk of death or readmission, even after adjusting for other important factors, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers reported in a study involving 11,000 patients cared for in six hospitals.

B, Adjusted 30 - day readmission rates.