Search results for "Readmissions"
Hospitals with high readmission rates may be penalized largely because of patients they serve | ACP Hospitalist Weekly | ACP Hospitalist
Patients admitted to hospitals with more readmissions had higher chronic disease burden, less education, fewer assets, worse self-reported health status, more depressive symptoms, worse cognition, worse physical functioning, and more difficulties
September 2015
Taking stock of the readmission penalties | ACP Hospitalist
CMS program has led to lower readmissions but may need updating.
April 2017
Success Story Archives | ACP Hospitalist
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Medicare readmission penalties don't reflect hospitals' overall readmission rates | ACP Hospitalist Weekly | ACP Hospitalist
Readmission rates for Medicare patients with heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, and pneumonia differed from those for non-Medicare patients with those conditions and Medicare patients with other conditions.
March 2018
Reducing readmissions by empowering patients | ACP Hospitalist
St. Joseph Hospital in Whatcom County, Wash., reduced unnecessary readmissions by improving patient self-management after hospital discharge.
September 2010
Making readmission penalties hospital-wide could hurt safety-net facilities more than others | ACP Hospitalist Weekly | ACP Hospitalist
Researchers estimated the effects of changing from the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program's existing condition-specific readmission measures to an annual hospital-wide measure.
October 2017
Readmission impossible | ACP Hospitalist
A dedicated team strives to keep a complex patient out of the hospital.
June 2018
1 in 4 PCI patients have unplanned readmission within six months, study finds | ACP Hospitalist Weekly | ACP Hospitalist
Patients are at greatest risk of an unplanned readmission within seven days of discharge, with the majority of readmissions occurring within 30 days, researchers noted.
April 2019
Q and A Archives | ACP Hospitalist
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CMS metric for 30-day readmissions may not be linked with improved care quality, outcomes after MI | ACP Hospitalist Weekly | ACP Hospitalist
Overall adherence to acute process-of-care measures for myocardial infarction (MI) was high and did not differ significantly by whether hospitals had more or fewer admissions.
May 2017