Sentences with phrase «hospital readmissions data»

«Socioeconomic factors may make Medicare's hospital readmissions data more useful.»

Not exact matches

Through the analysis of 11 years of hospital data, researchers were able to determine differences in length of stay, episode cost and 30 - day readmission rates for Medicare patients aged 65 and older by comparing cases where oral nutritional supplements were prescribed to patients with the same conditions to those who weren't prescribed oral nutritional supplements.

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

While the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program penalizes readmission to any hospital, most hospitals are only tracking same - hospital readmissions using administrative data that is recorded for billing pHospital Readmissions Reduction Program penalizes readmission to any hospital, most hospitals are only tracking same - hospital readmissions using administrative data that is recorded for billiReadmissions Reduction Program penalizes readmission to any hospital, most hospitals are only tracking same - hospital readmissions using administrative data that is recorded for billing phospital, most hospitals are only tracking same - hospital readmissions using administrative data that is recorded for billing phospital readmissions using administrative data that is recorded for billireadmissions using administrative data that is recorded for billing purposes.

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.

Recent research using national data on Medicare suggests that community - based factors, such as availability of general practitioners in the area, may be as or more important than hospital factors in determining readmission rates, and that patients may have few options other than hospital care for both urgent and non-urgent conditions related to their surgery or other conditions.

A new study shows that if socioeconomic factors related to patients» income and education are taken into account, differences in readmission rates among hospitals may not be as great as Medicare data indicate.

The researchers looked at data on 157 hospital readmissions in the Inova Fairfax Hospital ACS NSQIP dhospital readmissions in the Inova Fairfax Hospital ACS NSQIP dHospital ACS NSQIP database.

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.

New data released by the federal Department Of Health And Human Services indicates there has been a decline in the number of hospital readmissions, as well as the number of hospital - acquired infections across the country's hospitals.

Data for 8 control mothers were eliminated from analyses because of an extended PICU stay of > 21 days (30 days)(n = 1), readmission to the PICU before hospital discharge (n = 5), a planned admission (n = 1), or death (n = 1).