Sentences with phrase «hospital readmissions following»
«High rate of patient factors linked to hospital readmissions following general surgery.»
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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.
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.
Previous research has shown that one in five Medicare patients (20 %) is readmitted to a hospital within 30 days of discharge following CABG surgery, and most of those hospital readmissions are preventable, according to Dr. Hall.
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.
«Early post-surgery follow - up visits to primary care physicians cuts hospital readmissions.»
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.
The following Q&A was prepared by experts on Ebola and infectious diseases in response to the readmission to hospital of Pauline Cafferkey, the nurse who was infected with Ebola in 2014.
Patient 25: A man admitted to hospital with congestive heart failure and 12 other medical conditions is discharged home without the necessary home care follow up, placing him at a much higher risk of readmission.