Sentences with phrase «reduce hospital readmissions»

Research on cost and demographic of Medicare population to create a government grant and coordination between 5 companies to reduce hospital readmissions.

Incorporating information from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program and Surgical Risk Calculator into the daily workflow of healthcare teams in hospitals across the country could help achieve the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services» goal to reduce hospital readmissions and generate savings in health care costs in the coming years.

The study shows that better coordination of care between surgeons and primary care physicians is important to help reduce hospital readmissions within 30 days for those high - risk surgery patients who have post-operative complications or live with a chronic disease, according to Benjamin S. Brooke, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of surgery at the University of Utah School of Medicine and first author on the study.

His tiny startup used advanced «predictive analytics» technology and proprietary algorithms to drastically reduce hospital readmissions.

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.

In a small, single - center clinical trial, Chadwick Miller, M.D., M.S., and colleagues found that evaluating older, more complex patients in the observation unit with stress cardiac MRI, as opposed to usual inpatient care, reduced hospital readmissions, coronary revascularization procedures and the need for additional cardiac testing.

Home - visiting programs and multidisciplinary heart failure clinic interventions can reduce hospital readmission and improve survival for patients with heart failure, according to research from RTI International and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Question: Are community treatment orders more effective than Section 17 leave in reducing hospital readmissions in people with psychosis?

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The Due Date Plus smartphone app will allow us to support pregnant women, while also helping us reduce pregnancy complications like early delivery, low birth weight and C - sections, and hospital readmissions.

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.

Newborns whose mothers planned a home birth were at similar or reduced risk of fetal and neonatal morbidity compared with newborns whose mothers planned a hospital birth, except for admission to hospital (or readmission if born in hospital), which was more likely compared with newborns whose mothers were in the physician - attended cohort.

In the U.S., one in five Medicare patients is readmitted to a hospital each year at an estimated cost of $ 17.5 billion annually.i To reduce this impact, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has introduced hospital penalties based on readmissions conditions that commonly affect patients aged 65 and older — including acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure and pneumonia.i

And the penalties worked — more than half of U.S. hospitals reduced their early readmission penalty in less than a year.

Still, experts have argued that hospitals could go a long way toward reducing readmissions just by ensuring that patients receive proper follow - up care after discharge.

A 2011 study of eight such clinics published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that none reduced hospital visits or readmissions.

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

«Understanding the underlying reasons for readmission, the timing, and the associated factors should help hospitals to undertake targeted quality improvement initiatives to reduce readmissions.

Hospitals are working to reduce readmissions; however, little is known about the reasons for readmission after surgery.

Home visits by a cardiac surgery nurse practitioner (NP) following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery can dramatically reduce a patient's risk of hospital readmission and death 30 days after surgery, according to a study in the May 2014 issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

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.

Borja Ibáñez — joint lead investigator on the study with Valentín Fuster — explains that «the possibility to reduce so dramatically the number of cases of chronic heart failure (with all the associated treatments and hospital readmissions) with such a cheap procedure (the metoprolol treatment costs less than two euros per patient) could generate enormous savings for health services across Europe.»

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.

Predicting which patients are most likely to experience complications using a simple online tool may allow healthcare professionals to flag patients at high risk of readmission in real time and alter care to reduce expensive trips back to the hospital.

Hospital readmissions are believed to be an indicator of inferior care and are the focus of efforts by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reduce health care cost and improve quality.

«Many health care systems are currently focused on providing interventions at or soon after hospital discharge to reduce readmissions,» Nguyen said.

Programs providing a series of home visits soon after hospital discharge can reduce 30 - day readmission rates by 66 %.

Education and psychosocial interventions have been shown to improve HF self - care, symptom management, quality of life, and reduce readmissions to hospitals.

The forum will include discussion of how an integrated seniors housing and care model called Connect4Life, developed by the Bloomfield, N.J. - based Juniper Communities, has significantly reduced residents» hospital emergency department visits, admissions, and avoidable readmissions.