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In both countries, many readmissions are caused by preventable clerical issues: poor record keeping, lack of patient education or unclear lines of communication — exactly the sorts of problems that startups like Seamless MD are trying to address.

I recalled this decades - old memory when I read an investigation published online yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine entitled, «Comparison of Hospital Mortality and Readmission Rates for Medicare Patients Treated by Male vs. Female Physicians.»

«This veto did not afford us a reason and savings of three million dollars is not justifiable when the WNY Children's Psychiatric Center has: the lowest 30 and 90 day readmission rates; scored 99.9 % by the Joint Commission and is ranked top 10 % of any psychiatric facility in the United States,» he said.

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.

A new study entitled «Oral Nutrition Supplements» Impact on Hospital Outcomes in the Context of Affordable Care Act and New Medicare Reimbursement Policies» and conducted by leading researchers at the University of Southern California, Stanford University, The Harris School at The University of Chicago and Precision Health Economics, and supported by Abbott, found that the use of oral nutritional supplements decreased the probability of 30 - day hospital readmission, length of stay and costs among hospitalized Medicare patients aged 65 and over.

«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.»

The key to reducing readmissions may be focusing on the whole patient, rather than the specific conditions that caused their hospitalizations, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers.

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.

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.

Medical records of all readmitted patients were reviewed by three experienced surgeons to determine the causes for readmission.

A voluntary program being spearheaded by Intermountain Healthcare that allows family members of hospitalized patients to participate in their care enhanced healing and reduced readmission rates, according to a new study published in the February issue of the medical journal, CHEST.

The researchers therefore looked at whether readmissions flagged as PPRs by 3M were associated with poorer quality of care than those that weren't in Veterans Health Administration patients admitted to hospital with pneumonia, and readmitted within 30 days, between 2006 and 2010.

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.

The cause of her readmission into hospital was meningitis — infection of her nervous system, brain and spinal cord, by Ebola virus that remained from her initial infection.

Programs providing a series of home visits soon after hospital discharge can reduce 30 - day readmission rates by 66 %.

Using a national sample of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries, we found that patients who receive care from female general internists have lower 30 - day mortality and readmission rates than do patients cared for by male internists.

Patients treated by female physicians had 0.95 times the odds of death (95 % CI, 0.93 - 0.97; P <.001) and 0.96 time the odds of readmission (95 % CI, 0.95 - 0.97; P <.001) compared with patients cared for by male physicians.

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 hospitalOf 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 hospitalof hospital readmissions, as well as the number of hospital - acquired infections across the country's hospitalof hospital - acquired infections across the country's hospitals.

Citing the court rules governing the reinstatement process, she wrote: «We have chosen, however, not to make disbarment permanent for even the most serious offenses, opting instead to allow all disbarred attorneys to seek readmission and have the merits of their petitions judged on a case - by - case basis.

This study is a retrospective analysis of the cumulative impact of LOS and cost of pediatric readmissions on health care resource use conducted by using the NRD.

Readmission to hospitals can be measured by instruments that count 30, 60, and 90 day hospital readmissions, unplanned medical visits, emergency room (ED) visits, length of stay, and the reasons for use.

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.