Team develops 'calculator' to predict risk of early hospital readmission
Patients who are discharged after a hospital stay will want to stay away from the hospital for as long as possible. However, in Singapore, approximately 15 per cent of patients who have been discharged...
View ArticleFewer repeat hospital admissions after 'vertical integration' of healthcare
"Vertical integration" of healthcare—closer coordination of care between primary care and hospitals—leads to a lower rate of hospital readmissions, suggests an experience from Portugal reported in the...
View ArticleRacial, ethnic disparities in pediatric readmission rates for chronic disease...
Disparities in pediatric readmission rates for chronic conditions such as asthma, depression, diabetes, migraines, and seizures vary, with the lowest one-year readmissions recorded for depression and...
View ArticleReadmission penalties don't correlate to heart attack outcomes
A program that penalizes hospitals for high early readmission rates of heart attack patients may be unfairly penalizing hospitals that serve a large proportion of African-Americans and those with more...
View ArticleStudy analyzes health care quality, IT, reimbursements
Management of health care quality and costs has become a prominent topic of debate and research in the last decade in the United States. A new study from The University of Texas at Dallas examines the...
View ArticleSocial factors of patients affect hospital performance measures
A team of researchers led by a University of Colorado School of Medicine faculty member found that measures to evaluate readmission rates at children's hospitals would be more accurate if the social...
View ArticleHospital discharge program improves patient experience leaving the hospital
A standardized, in-hospital discharge planning program, known as Project ReEngineered Dishcharge (RED), improves patient experience as they leave the hospital, according to researchers at Boston...
View ArticleStudy: Reducing hospital readmissions does not increase mortality rates
Recent advances in reducing hospital readmission rates for three key medical conditions occurred without causing an increase in death rates, according to a new Yale-led study.
View ArticleHospital quality independently impacts readmission rates
(HealthDay)—Hospital quality contributes to readmission rates independent of factors involving patients, according to a study published in the Sept. 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
View ArticleFederal policy to reduce re-hospitalizations is linked to increased mortality...
Federal policymakers five years ago introduced the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program to spur hospitals to reduce Medicare readmission rates by penalizing them if they didn't. A new analysis led by...
View ArticleACA program to reduce hospital readmissions not all it's cracked up to be
A federal program that has been shown to reduce hospital readmissions may not have been as successful as it appears, University of Michigan researchers report in the latest issue of the Journal of the...
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