Sentences with phrase «lowered hospital readmission»

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The Due Date Plus smartphone app will allow us to support pregnant women, while also helping us reduce pregnancy complications like early delivery, low birth weight and C - sections, and hospital readmissions.

There's prolonged, more intense pain postpartum, a longer hospital stay, readmission to the hospital, an upsetting or emotionally traumatic birth experience, less early contact and connection with the baby, depression and mental health problems, low self - esteem, relationship issues, difficulty functioning and doing usual daily activities postpartum, chronic pelvic pain from scar tissue, problems with and discontinuing breastfeeding - along with the associated risks to mom and baby of not breastfeeding.

Important causes of readmissions to address are: Errors in hospital and transition care; Low threshold for admission and readmission; Premature discharge because of pressure to vacate hospital beds.

«Hospitals are going to be looking for ways to improve quality of care for Medicare patients in order to lower readmission rates and prevent fines,» said study co-author, Tomas Philipson, Ph.D., who is the Daniel Levin Chair of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

Comparisons between groups may lead to spurious conclusions — a hospital that regularly admits substance abusers will have artificially low rates of readmission, giving a false appearance of better performance.»

Similarly, some studies have suggested that decreasing the length of hospital stays lowers readmission rates, whereas others have linked shorter hospital stays with increased 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.

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.

We have found empirically that hospitals with the lowest readmission rates have reduced readmissions across the board,» said Dharmarajan.

They then ranked hospitals from lowest to highest readmission rates and divided them into five groups (quintiles) based upon their ranking.

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.

«Physical activity associated with lower rates of hospital readmission in patients with COPD.»

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who participated in any level of moderate to vigorous physical activity had a lower risk of hospital readmission within 30 days compared to those who were inactive, according to a study published today in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.