Sentences with phrase «included hospital readmission»

This included hospital readmission rates, reinterventions (a second procedure), and long - term survival.

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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).

In the U.S., one in five Medicare patients is readmitted to a hospital each year at an estimated cost of $ 17.5 billion annually.i To reduce this impact, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has introduced hospital penalties based on readmissions conditions that commonly affect patients aged 65 and older — including acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure and pneumonia.i

These quality metrics included a review of inpatient admissions, average length of stay in the hospital and time spent in the intensive care unit, the 30 - day readmission rate, and other patient - related statistics.

Hospital readmissions account for a large share of healthcare spending in the U.S., including more than $ 17 billion of Medicare costs each year.

Lisa K. McIntyre, M.D., of the University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, and colleagues conducted a study that included 173 general surgical patients (91 men) who were identified as being unplanned readmissions within 30 days among 2,100 discharges (8 percent) at a Level I trauma center and safety - net hospital.

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.

Treatment can include long courses of antibiotics, physical therapy, hospital readmissions and reoperations.

«These reports include the institution's all - hospital readmission rate, and, moreover, the provider IDs for all the other hospitals to which an institution's patients were readmitted.

Rather, given the debate over whether Medicare should include socioeconomic factors in its formula to calculate hospital readmissions, the study raises questions about whether Medicare's readmission rates reflect social factors related to the hospital's patient mix as well as hospital performance and quality.

Pick any Catholic hospital in the land, look it up on this Medicare site, and you can easily obtain all sorts of information about the quality of care that it provides, including postoperative complications, readmission rates, death rates for heart - attack patients, what former patients think about the nursing, and on and on.

The forum will include discussion of how an integrated seniors housing and care model called Connect4Life, developed by the Bloomfield, N.J. - based Juniper Communities, has significantly reduced residents» hospital emergency department visits, admissions, and avoidable readmissions.