Sentences with phrase «readmissions rates»

«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.

This isn't just inconvenient; increasingly, hospitals face fines or funding clawbacks if their readmission rates climb too high.

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.»

HEART APP IMPROVES JOHNS HOPKINS» PATIENT OUTCOMES: A new cardiology - focused iPhone app is reducing readmission rates for heart attack patients, resulting in massive savings, according to a Johns Hopkins University study.

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.

It is reliably estimated that readmission rates to mental hospitals could be reduced from almost thirty - five percent to around ten percent were adequate medical, social, and vocational aftercare facilities available.

«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.

In FY2014, CMS will hold a hospital accountable if its 30 - day readmission rate declines while its 30 - day mortality increases.

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.

This included hospital readmission rates, reinterventions (a second procedure), and long - term survival.

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.»

At the same time, Rhode Island's overall readmission rate decreased more than 18 percent — from 14.12 to 11.52 per 1,000 Medicare beneficiaries.

Despite the increased national focus on reducing hospital readmissions, Dharmarajan said it had not been clear whether hospitals with the lowest readmission rates have been especially good at reducing readmissions from specific diagnoses and time periods after hospitalization, or have instead lowered readmissions more generally.

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

Published Nov. 20 in the British Medical Journal, the researchers found that top - performing hospitals — those with the lowest 30 - day readmission rates — had fewer readmissions from all diagnoses and time periods after discharge than lower performing hospitals with higher readmissions.

We have found empirically that hospitals with the lowest readmission rates have reduced readmissions across the board,» said Dharmarajan.

«These findings suggest that psychiatric comorbidities influence 30 - day all - cause readmission rates for individuals with heart failure, AMI and pneumonia,» Ahmedani says.

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.

«Because depression, anxiety and substance abuse appeared to be the most common diagnoses among the patients we studied, and because each was associated with increased readmission rates, these disorders may be the most appropriate for healthcare systems to focus their primary screening efforts.»

However, surgical readmissions mostly reflect postdischarge complications, and readmission rates may be difficult to reduce until effective strategies are put forth to reduce common complications such as SSI.

Readmission rates and reasons were assessed for all surgical procedures and for six representative operations: bariatric procedures, colectomy or proctectomy, hysterectomy, total hip or knee arthroplasty, ventral hernia repair, and lower extremity vascular bypass.

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.»

The unplanned 30 day readmission rate for 498,875 operations was 5.7 percent.

Though the early readmission rate in the 30 days after discharge was initially lower in patients with diastolic heart failure, this soon increased such that it was similar to those with systolic heart failure.

«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.

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.

«Same - hospital readmission rate an unreliable predictor for all - hospital readmission rate.»

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.

They then ranked hospitals from lowest to highest readmission rates and divided them into five groups (quintiles) based upon their ranking.

«These reports include the institution's all - hospital readmission rate, and, moreover, the provider IDs for all the other hospitals to which an institution's patients were readmitted.

That's why using the same - hospital readmission rate is an unreliable predictor for your all - hospital readmission rate, but that rate is exactly what CMS penalizes hospitals for.»

«Unless you are a top or bottom performer for readmissions, your same - hospital readmission rate may be very misleading.

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

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

Rather, given the debate over whether Medicare should include socioeconomic factors in its formula to calculate hospital readmissions, the study raises questions about whether Medicare's readmission rates reflect social factors related to the hospital's patient mix as well as hospital performance and quality.

«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.

The overall 30 - day readmission rate for patients was 5.2 percent.

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.