Sentences with phrase «hospital readmissions focus»
Previous studies investigating patients at risk for hospital readmissions focus on medical services and have found chronic conditions as contributors.
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«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.»
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.
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.
«Many health care systems are currently focused on providing interventions at or soon after hospital discharge to reduce readmissions,» Nguyen said.
«The time has come to shift the focus of readmissions away from hospitals to a broader health systems approach,» they write.
From here, Dr. Trickey said her team will focus on the top two reasons for hospital readmissions: SSIs and intestinal obstruction.