Search results for "Readmissions"
Postdischarge efforts fail to reduce readmissions
Two separate projects to reduce patients' hospital readmissions within 30 days of discharge by providing more postdischarge support reported negative results last week.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/10/08/2.htm
8 Oct 2014
September 2016
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/09/
August 2016
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/08/
Anticoagulation for heart failure and afib associated with reductions in mortality, but maybe not readmissions
Starting anticoagulation for older patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation at hospital discharge was associated with improved mortality at 1 and 3 years but was not associated with improved rates of all-cause cardiovascular readmission or stroke, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/09/17/4.htm
17 Sep 2014
Lupus patient readmission rates are high and vary considerably by hospital and region, study finds
Approximately 1 in 6 hospitalized patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days, according to a new study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/08/13/3.htm
13 Aug 2014
November 2014
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/11/
Dedicated admitters didn't change length of stay but reduced readmissions, 1 hospital found
These results differed from the researchers' initial hypotheses that the admitter-rounder model would decrease ICU transfers, shorten ED length of stay, lengthen overall length of stay, and have no impact on readmissions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/04/27/1.htm
27 Apr 2016
April 2015
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/04/
January 2015
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/01/
Factors and score to identify preventable 30-day readmissions offered by new studies
Factors that the study found most strongly associated with preventable readmissions were ED decision making about readmission, failure to relay important information to outpatient clinicians, too-early discharge, and lack of discussion of care goals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/04/13/1.htm
13 Apr 2016