Search results for "Readmissions"
Latest COVID-19 research looks at tocilizumab, remdesivir, tracheostomy, readmissions
A living systematic review still didn't find benefit from remdesivir or tocilizumab, but new trials supported their use. Delaying tracheostomy may not help patients or clinicians, another study found, and the first 10 days carry increased readmission risk for COVID-19 patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/12/23/1.htm
23 Dec 2020
March 2014
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/03/
Risk adjustment for more patient, population characteristics could reduce readmission penalties
Researchers assessed the impact of adjusting for hospitals' cumulative chronic disease burden; quantity of patients who were dual-eligible, disabled, or long-term nursing home residents; and other area-level socioeconomic variables.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/09/26/4.htm
26 Sep 2018
November 15, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/15/
Readmission risk differs when same Medicare patients admitted to different hospitals
The results may reassure the public, policymakers, and clinicians that the signal of quality from the hospital-wide readmission measure is valid and can be used as a means to benchmark performance, the authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/09/20/4.htm
20 Sep 2017
October 26, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/10/26/
Readmission penalties may not drive observation stays in lieu of readmissions
Use of observation rose from 2007 to 2015, but both for diagnoses targeted by readmission penalties and those not targeted, and there was no hospital-level association with readmissions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/03/09/2.htm
9 Mar 2016
August 24, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/24/
Disadvantaged neighborhoods and safety-net hospitals had higher readmission rates
A retrospective analysis of Maryland hospital patients found that 30-day readmission rates varied from 14.1% to 12.5% with the disadvantage level of patients' home neighborhoods and from 14.8% to 11.6% with a hospital's safety-net status.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/03/4.htm
3 Jul 2019
Hospitalist care associated with slightly higher costs, readmissions among patients discharged to SNFs
Patients treated by hospitalists did show a trend toward lower 30-day mortality than those treated by nonhospitalists, according to a retrospective analysis of fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries discharged to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/10/30/3.htm
30 Oct 2019