Sentences with phrase «cause of her readmission»

Important causes of readmissions to address are: Errors in hospital and transition care; Low threshold for admission and readmission; Premature discharge because of pressure to vacate hospital beds.

The cause of her readmission into hospital was meningitis — infection of her nervous system, brain and spinal cord, by Ebola virus that remained from her initial infection.

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In both countries, many readmissions are caused by preventable clerical issues: poor record keeping, lack of patient education or unclear lines of communication — exactly the sorts of problems that startups like Seamless MD are trying to address.

«This study suggests that the path to excellence in readmission is a result of an approach that focuses on the patient as a whole rather than on what caused them to be admitted,» said senior author and director of the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation Harlan Krumholz, M.D., the Harold H. Hines, Jr..

The key to reducing readmissions may be focusing on the whole patient, rather than the specific conditions that caused their hospitalizations, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers.

«We found that CDI readmissions for any reason had almost a one week longer average LOS than all - cause readmissions,» said Teena Chopra, MD, MPH, a leading CDI expert from DMC's Division of Infectious Diseases who led the study.

Researchers from the Detroit Medical Center (DMC), a seven - hospital system in southeastern Michigan, conducted a large study to understand the epidemiology of CDI readmissions, analyzing 51,353 all - cause discharges between January 1 and December 31, 2012.

Despite improvement in the rates of people dying of sepsis in the hospital, the condition is still a leading cause of hospital readmissions and costs, as well as long - term disabilities and impairments, prompting University of Pittsburgh and University of Michigan medical scientists to develop thorough recommendations for post-hospital recovery care and future clinical trials.

Medical records of all readmitted patients were reviewed by three experienced surgeons to determine the causes for readmission.

Intermountain researchers looked at 30 - day all - cause readmissions, 30 - day all - cause mortality, length of stay, and the number of emergency room visits.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) posts data on 30 day readmissions for three common causes of hospital admissions: heart attack; heart failure; and pneumonia.

To explore causes of hospital readmissions, researchers created a tool to identify and quantify a patient's feelings of uncertainty during their initial emergency department visit.