Sentences with phrase «of readmission for»

Unmet nursing care did not influence the likelihood of readmission for older white patients.

«Because interventions to reduce the risk of readmission for any group of patients can be costly and labor intensive, identification of the highest risk cohort for readmission can allow more targeted intervention for this population of socially vulnerable patients.»

The researchers found a similar narrower range of readmissions for patients treated for heart failure or pneumonia.

Not exact matches

FITBIT DATA AIDS RESEARCHERS IN UNDERSTANDING SURGERY RECOVERY: Fitbit data can help researchers and doctors predict the risk of 30 - and 60 - day readmission after surgery for cancer patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

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.»

Yelp has even partnered with ProPublica to publish average wait times, readmission rates, and quality of communication scores for more than 25,000 hospitals, nursing homes, and dialysis clinics.

The decline in readmissions represents cost savings of $ 262,500 in penalties — Johns Hopkins doesn't receive Medicare reimbursements for patient readmissions.

When these sources of information are combined, we can achieve an even deeper explanation of the differences in hospital performance for readmissions.

Again, reconstruction was largely imposed upon the South, so ill - equipped for conservancy and policy formation were the states of the Confederacy upon their readmission to the Union at the close of the war.

Common reasons for unexpected readmission are dehydration because of vomiting or diarrhea, upper respiratory infections, hernia complications, persistent or increased apnea, or shunt repair.

The patient had multiple readmissions for medical and surgical indications and died at 6 months of age.

They are encouraging their members to lobby the WHO to maintain the status quo even though the the status quo ignores the scientific evidence, is dangerous for babies leading to literally tens of thousands of newborn hospital readmissions in the US alone, and increases sudden infant deaths in hospitals.

Newborns whose mothers planned a home birth were at similar or reduced risk of fetal and neonatal morbidity compared with newborns whose mothers planned a hospital birth, except for admission to hospital (or readmission if born in hospital), which was more likely compared with newborns whose mothers were in the physician - attended cohort.

23 Therefore, the higher rate of admission (or readmission if a hospital birth) among newborns in the planned home - birth group than of readmission in the planned hospital - birth group may have been linked to the need for treatment of hyper - bilirubinemia, which, among babies born in hospital, may require a longer stay in hospital rather than readmission.

Students at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs Friday gathered to protest a readmission hearing for a student suspended for sexual misconduct and to support victims of sexual violence.

«I have had it suggested that those arguing for his readmission want to stop him standing in the London mayoral election and damaging the prospects of our superb candidate Sadiq Khan.

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.

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.

The study, to be presented this weekend at the 35th annual meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) in Baltimore, demonstrated that oral nutritional supplements were associated with a decreased probability of 30 - day readmission among Medicare patients aged 65 and over who could be tracked for readmission, with:

«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.

While there's no difference in the total readmission rate, the new results suggest that current smokers are at substantially higher risk of reoperation for septic complications.

Smoking overall, however, was unrelated to the risk of readmission without surgery, or for reoperation for reasons other than infections.

However, for current and former smokers alike, the risk of 90 - day nonoperative readmission increased with the number of «pack - years» smoked.

For example, heart failure and pneumonia are two of the most common diagnoses associated with hospital readmission, but a study published in 2009 found that most patients who return to the hospital after having one of these conditions do so for seemingly unrelated problems, such as injuries or adverse drug reactioFor example, heart failure and pneumonia are two of the most common diagnoses associated with hospital readmission, but a study published in 2009 found that most patients who return to the hospital after having one of these conditions do so for seemingly unrelated problems, such as injuries or adverse drug reactiofor seemingly unrelated problems, such as injuries or adverse drug reactions.

«This study suggests that the path to excellence in readmission is a result of an approach that focuses on the patient as a whole rather than on what caused them to be admitted,» said senior author and director of the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation Harlan Krumholz, M.D., the Harold H. Hines, Jr..

Checking back into the hospital within 30 days of discharge is not only bad news for patients, but also for hospitals, which now face financial penalties for high readmissions.

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

The subject of readmission rates has been of increasing concern to U.S. hospitals since October 2012, when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) tied readmissions to reimbursement as part of the Affordable Care Act, informally known as Obamacare.

For the individual procedures, the rate of readmission ranged from 3.8 percent after hysterectomy to 14.9 percent after lower extremity vascular bypass.

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.

The team found that the risk of readmission or death within 30 days was lower for discharges from SNFs with better staffing ratings, better facility inspection ratings and lower rates of new or worsening pressure ulcers.

The most common reason for readmission after bariatric surgery was ileus (blockage of the intestine) or obstruction (24.5 percent), and ileus or obstruction was the second most common reason for readmission overall (10.3 percent) and for colectomy or proctectomy, ventral hernia repair, and hysterectomy.

When comparing the costs for the program to the costs of the readmissions averted, the researchers found a substantial savings.

«We found that CDI readmissions for any reason had almost a one week longer average LOS than all - cause readmissions,» said Teena Chopra, MD, MPH, a leading CDI expert from DMC's Division of Infectious Diseases who led the study.

When examining early (within 7 days of discharge) and late (more than 7 days after discharge) unplanned readmissions separately, the top 3 reasons for readmission were similar overall (SSI, ileus or obstruction, and bleeding) and when examining each of the 6 procedure groups individually.

«If nothing is done to try and curb CDI rates, healthcare systems may stand to face financial penalties because of high rates of hospital - acquired CDI and CDI - related readmissions for CMS - reportable conditions,» said Dr. Chopra.

Early treatment with metoprolol treatment also significantly reduced the rate of hospital readmission for chronic heart failure, and massively reduced the need to implant a cardioverter - defibrillator.

Borja Ibáñez — joint lead investigator on the study with Valentín Fuster — explains that «the possibility to reduce so dramatically the number of cases of chronic heart failure (with all the associated treatments and hospital readmissions) with such a cheap procedure (the metoprolol treatment costs less than two euros per patient) could generate enormous savings for health services across Europe.»

Conversely, the rate of unplanned 30 - day readmissions was less than 5 percent for patients without any complications.

However, according to new research findings presented at the 2013 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, same - hospital readmission rates are an unreliable surrogate for predicting all - hospital readmissions rates.

«As a national way of assessing and tracking hospital quality, pediatric readmissions and revisits, at least for specific diagnoses, are not useful to families trying to find a good hospital, nor to the hospitals trying to improve their pediatric care,» said Naomi Bardach, MD, an assistant professor of pediatrics at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital and lead author.

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.

The study shows that better coordination of care between surgeons and primary care physicians is important to help reduce hospital readmissions within 30 days for those high - risk surgery patients who have post-operative complications or live with a chronic disease, according to Benjamin S. Brooke, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of surgery at the University of Utah School of Medicine and first author on the study.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) considers this rate excessive, and began reducing payments to hospitals that have excessive readmission rates in October 2012 under a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

«With increasing penalization for readmissions rates, hospitals need complete information to effectively target areas for quality improvement,» said study coauthor Andrew Gonzalez, MD, JD, MPH, a research fellow in vascular surgery at the Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Despite improvement in the rates of people dying of sepsis in the hospital, the condition is still a leading cause of hospital readmissions and costs, as well as long - term disabilities and impairments, prompting University of Pittsburgh and University of Michigan medical scientists to develop thorough recommendations for post-hospital recovery care and future clinical trials.

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.

In the first multi-state study of children's and non-children's hospitals, assessing pediatric readmission and revisit rates — being admitted into the hospital again or visiting the emergency room within 30 days of discharge — for common pediatric conditions, UCSF researchers found that diagnosis - specific readmission and revisit rates are limited in their usefulness as a quality indicator for pediatric hospital care.

Incorporating information from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program and Surgical Risk Calculator into the daily workflow of healthcare teams in hospitals across the country could help achieve the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services» goal to reduce hospital readmissions and generate savings in health care costs in the coming years.

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.