Sentences with phrase «readmission rates compared»

Patients receiving care by female hospitalists had lower mortality and readmission rates compared with patients receiving care by male hospitalists (eTable 5 in the Supplement).

«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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Further analyses show risk - adjusted readmission rates to be lower in New York and higher in Florida, compared to California.

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