Sentences with phrase «hospital readmissions after»

«Hospital readmissions after surgery often related to complications from surgery.»

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We examined whether trusted Yelp reviews (screened to weed out fraudulent reviews) correlated with health care quality metrics for New York hospitals, including preventable hospital readmissions and mortality after hospital treatment for certain conditions (such as heart attacks) or procedures (such as stomach surgeries).

Still, experts have argued that hospitals could go a long way toward reducing readmissions just by ensuring that patients receive proper follow - up care after discharge.

For example, heart failure and pneumonia are two of the most common diagnoses associated with hospital readmission, but a study published in 2009 found that most patients who return to the hospital after having one of these conditions do so for seemingly unrelated problems, such as injuries or adverse drug reactions.

Despite the increased national focus on reducing hospital readmissions, Dharmarajan said it had not been clear whether hospitals with the lowest readmission rates have been especially good at reducing readmissions from specific diagnoses and time periods after hospitalization, or have instead lowered readmissions more generally.

High performing hospitals had fewer readmissions across all diagnostic categories and time periods after discharge.

Published Nov. 20 in the British Medical Journal, the researchers found that top - performing hospitals — those with the lowest 30 - day readmission rates — had fewer readmissions from all diagnoses and time periods after discharge than lower performing hospitals with higher readmissions.

In a study that included readmission information from nearly 350 hospitals, readmissions the first 30 days after surgery were associated with new postdischarge complications related to the surgical procedure and not a worsening of any medical conditions the patient already had while hospitalized for surgery, according to a study in the February 3 issue of JAMA.

Dr. Cohen said the new risk outcomes are readmission to the hospital; ileus, a type of bowel obstruction; and leak of an intestinal anastomosis, a surgical connection of two formerly distant parts of the intestine after removal of diseased bowel.

Readmissions after surgery may not be an appropriate measure for pay - for - performance programs but rather better suited as measure for hospitals to track internally,» the authors write.

Hospitals are working to reduce readmissions; however, little is known about the reasons for readmission after surgery.

Home visits by a cardiac surgery nurse practitioner (NP) following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery can dramatically reduce a patient's risk of hospital readmission and death 30 days after surgery, according to a study in the May 2014 issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

Ryan P. Merkow, M.D., M.S., of the American College of Surgeons, Chicago, and colleagues examined the reasons, timing, and factors associated with unplanned postoperative hospital readmissions within 30 days after surgery.

After controlling for severity of disease and surgical complexity, analyses showed that the rate of unplanned 30 - day readmissions was approximately 78 percent for patients with any complication diagnosed following discharge from the hospital.

The patients were followed for 90 days, after which the researchers found significant reductions in coronary revascularization procedures, fewer hospital readmissions and fewer recurrent cardiac testing episodes or the need for additional testing.

«Many health care systems are currently focused on providing interventions at or soon after hospital discharge to reduce readmissions,» Nguyen said.

In a linked editorial, Drs Christine Soong and Chaim Bell of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada, suggest that: «After years of intensive research to find an objective measure of preventable readmissions, it seems as imminent as the arrival of Godot.»

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.

Programs providing a series of home visits soon after hospital discharge can reduce 30 - day readmission rates by 66 %.