Sentences with phrase «rates of readmission»

Exacerbation of symptoms and rates of readmission to hospital.

Rates of readmission or death were also lower at nursing homes that had a higher percentage of patients with moderate to severe pain and acute delirium.

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.»

Supporters of keeping the center open say it also has one of the lowest rates of readmission among centers of its kind.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Insurers have been striking deals with pharma companies that will land them discounts on pricey drugs if those treatments don't demonstrably improve patients» health outcomes; hospitals are penalized if they have high rates of patient readmissions.

These challenges lead to a high rate of hospital readmission in late preterm babies who are discharged within 48 hours of birth.

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.

«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.

«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.

In addition to readmission rates, the use of oral nutritional supplements also delivered associated improvements in a patient's length of stay and hospital costs.

These quality metrics included a review of inpatient admissions, average length of stay in the hospital and time spent in the intensive care unit, the 30 - day readmission rate, and other patient - related statistics.

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.

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.

Another problem, though, may prove to be an obstacle to the clinics» making a big dent in readmission rates: Despite their growing popularity, their numbers in the U.S. are still relatively small, Mehrotra says, which could limit the scope of their hospital partnerships.

«Importantly, the length of stay was reduced while balancing measures and co-morbidities such as necrotizing enterocolitis, chronic lung disease, mortality and readmission rates remained similar or trended downward.»

The research team found that readmission diagnoses and timing were similar regardless of a hospital's 30 - day readmission rates.

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.

«High rate of patient factors linked to hospital readmissions following general surgery.»

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.

Two smaller previous studies were conducted at a single healthcare site and produced conflicting results: one showed higher rates of 30 - day readmissions, and the other found lower rates.

Identification of these reasons could help direct future surgical quality improvement efforts and policy decisions designed to reduce surgical readmission rates, according to background information in the article.

«C. difficile doubles hospital readmission rates, lengths of stay.»

«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.

Overall rates of hospital readmission and serious adverse events were similar in the two groups, but neurologic events and supraventricular arrhythmias remained more frequent in the combined - procedure group.

More effective communication has been linked with higher rates of patient satisfaction, lower readmissions, and better adherence to therapeutic recommendations.

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.

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

«That has the potential to improve the usefulness of readmission rates as a quality indicator,» said Bardach.

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.

Using patient level data, the researchers generated risk - adjusted rates of same - hospital and all - hospital readmissions.

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 authors then compared how hospital performance based upon same - hospital readmission rate compared with performance under all - hospital readmissions, and found that 42 percent of hospitals were reclassified into a different quintile of performance.

Those who saw their primary care provider within 30 days after surgery had a 20 percent readmission rate compared to a rate of 35 percent among those who did not have an early follow - up visit with their primary care physician.

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.

Readmission rates of adult patients to the same hospital within 30 days are an area of national focus and a potential indicator of clinical failure and unnecessary expenditures.

«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.

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.

«Pediatric readmission rates aren't indicator of hospital performance, study shows.»

«SLE patients have one of the highest hospital readmission rates compared to those with other chronic illnesses,» explains Jinoos Yazdany, M.D., M.P.H. from the Division of Rheumatology at the University of California, San Francisco.

«A narrower range suggests that socioeconomic factors could explain a substantial portion of the observed differences in hospital readmission rates,» said Nagasako, an instructor of medicine.

Recent research using national data on Medicare suggests that community - based factors, such as availability of general practitioners in the area, may be as or more important than hospital factors in determining readmission rates, and that patients may have few options other than hospital care for both urgent and non-urgent conditions related to their surgery or other conditions.

They compared two different models for calculating hospital readmission rates within 30 days of discharge.

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

When controlling for comorbidities and type of insurance coverage, the readmission rate for Hispanic patients dropped 44 percent, and for black patients, 38 percent.