Sentences with phrase «preventing hospital readmission»
Patient education concerning diagnosis, lab results, medications and adverse reactions, disease prevention, wellness counseling, post hospital discharge counseling aimed at preventing hospital readmission, communication liaison between outside facility nurses and physicians
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«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.
Hospitals with high rates of readmissions are penalised financially and get less money from Medicare regardless of whether or not those readmissions could have been prevented.