Search results for "Readmissions"
Readmissions higher with Medicare Advantage than traditional Medicare, study suggests
Many admissions of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries for acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, or pneumonia were missing from the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set, and their absence appeared to affect readmission rate measurement.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/06/26/4.htm
26 Jun 2019
November 16, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/11/16/
Recent heart failure readmission and mortality trends differ in U.S., Canada
In both countries, readmissions and 30-day mortality after acute myocardial infarction dropped, but Canada saw less change in heart failure readmissions and a drop rather than a rise in heart failure mortality.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/02/26/4.htm
26 Feb 2020
The endless war on readmissions
Hospitalists who study readmissions discuss the current state of the evidence and offer their best advice on avoiding patients coming back to the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/11/free/the-endless-war-on-readmissions.htm
15 Nov 2021
Functional mobility was strongest predictor of readmissions after MI in elderly
Researchers identified eight variables that they combined to predict 30-day readmissions among patients ages 75 years and older, with the most significant being a slow result on the Timed Up and Go test.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/05/01/4.htm
1 May 2019
Familiar faces reduce readmissions
A hospitalist explains how his facility focused a consistent multidisciplinary team on patients who were likely to return to the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/07/20/free/familiar-faces-reduce-readmissions.htm
20 Jul 2022
Medicare readmission penalties don't reflect hospitals' overall readmission rates
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.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/03/28/4.htm
28 Mar 2018
July 6, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/07/06/
Score predicts 90-day readmission risk after myocardial infarction
Predictive factors that could be identified before discharge included age, heart failure, heart rate, dialysis, diabetes, cerebrovascular disease, peripheral artery disease, and chronic lung disease.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/10/24/2.htm
24 Oct 2018
August 10, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/10/