Sentences with phrase «preventable hospital readmissions»

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).

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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.

More significantly, the researchers estimated that the NSQIP analysis showed that approximately 60 percent of the hospital readmissions are potentially preventable.

In a linked editorial, Drs Christine Soong and Chaim Bell of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada, suggest that: «After years of intensive research to find an objective measure of preventable readmissions, it seems as imminent as the arrival of Godot.»

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«Widely used software doesn't note differences in care quality among hospital readmissions: Cases flagged by 3M as preventable received no worse care than unflagged cases, study shows.»