«The time has come to shift
the focus of readmissions away from hospitals to a broader health systems approach,» they write.
Not exact matches
«The impetus
of this study was to better characterize resource use, which is rising, by
focusing on how the number
of transplants performed within a center influences cost and early hospital
readmissions.»
«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.
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.
Hospital
readmissions are believed to be an indicator
of inferior care and are the
focus of efforts by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reduce health care cost and improve quality.
«Rather than
focusing on
readmissions, preventable or otherwise, time may be better spent in developing quality measures
of complex disease management across a patient's continuum
of care,» they write.
Using multi-sited ethnographic methods and an anthropology
of policy approach, I
focus specifically on Malawi's 1993
Readmission Policy, which banned the practice
of permanently expelling pregnant girls from school, and its 2016 reform.