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Elements of the care environment influence coronary artery bypass surgery readmission

Surgery Open Science, 2022
Background: Coronary artery bypass grafting 30-day unplanned readmission is a focus for the CMS Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. Awareness of the critical elements of the care delivery environment, including hospital infrastructure and patient ...
Michael P. Rogers, MD, MS, Evelena Cousin-Peterson, MD, Tara M. Barry, MD, Marshall S. Baker, MD, MBA, Paul C. Kuo, MD, MS, MBA, Haroon M. Janjua, MS   +5 more
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A risk score to predict 30-day hospital readmission rate in cirrhotic patients with spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

European Journal of Medical Research, 2023
Background and aim There is lack of 30-day hospital readmission prediction score in patients with liver cirrhosis and SBP. The aim of this study is to recognize factors capable of predicting 30-day readmission and to develop a readmission risk score in ...
Nasser Mousa, Ahmed Abdel-Razik, Sherif Elbaz, Mohamed Salah, Mohammed Abdelaziz, Alaa Habib, Ahmed Deib, Abdel-Naser Gadallah, Niveen El-wakeel, Waleed Eldars, Narmin effat, Ola El-Emam, Khaled Taha, Alaa Elmetwalli, Eman Mousa, Dina Elhammady   +15 more
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Tackling the readmission epidemic: a resident teaching service perspective [PDF]

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2013
Background: Readmission rates are projected to serve as quality measures that have the potential to negatively impact hospital and physician reimbursement. Individual physicians and hospitals are developing plans to reduce readmission rates.
Ravi K. Sharma, Pradeep Dhakarwal, Janelle Violago, Robin Bhasin, Ibrahim Ghobrial   +4 more
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Association Rules Mining for Hospital Readmission: A Case Study

Mathematics, 2021
As an indicator of healthcare quality and performance, hospital readmission incurs major costs for healthcare systems worldwide. Understanding the relationships between readmission factors, such as input features and readmission length, is challenging ...
Nor Hamizah Miswan, ‘Ismat Mohd Sulaiman, Chee Seng Chan, Chong Guan Ng   +3 more
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Reconsidering Hospital Readmission Measures [PDF]

Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2017
Current hospital readmission measures are part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Five‐Star Quality Rating System but are inadequate for reporting hospital quality. We review potential biases in the readmission measures and offer policy recommendations to address these biases.
Peter J, Pronovost, Daniel J, Brotman, Erik H, Hoyer, Amy, Deutschendorf   +3 more
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Impact on hospital ranking of basing readmission measures on a composite endpoint of death or readmission versus readmissions alone

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background Readmission penalties are central to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) efforts to improve patient outcomes and reduce health care spending.
Laurent G. Glance, Yue Li, Andrew W. Dick   +2 more
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Readmissions, Observation, and the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

New England Journal of Medicine, 2016
The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, which is included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), applies financial penalties to hospitals that have higher-than-expected readmission rates for targeted conditions. Some policy analysts worry that reductions in readmissions are being achieved by keeping returning patients in observation units instead of ...
Rachael B, Zuckerman, Steven H, Sheingold, E John, Orav, Joel, Ruhter, Arnold M, Epstein   +4 more
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Patient and hospital factors associated with 30-day readmissions after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2021
Background Readmission after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is associated with adverse outcomes and significant healthcare costs, and 30-day readmission rate is considered as a key indicator of the quality of care.
Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon, Michael Odutola, Michael O. Falster, Louisa R. Jorm   +3 more
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Risk Modelling Framework for Emergency Hospital Readmission, Using Hospital Episode Statistics Inpatient Data [PDF]

, 2016
The objective of this study was to develop, test and benchmark a framework and a predictive risk model for hospital emergency readmission within 12 months.
Mesgarpour, M., Chahed, S., Chaussalet, T.J.   +2 more
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Hospital Readmission Prediction using Discriminative patterns

, 2020
Avoidable hospital readmission is problematic as it increases the burden on healthcare systems, leads to a shortage of hospital beds and impacts on the costs of healthcare.
Hoy, W, Wendy Hoy, Xu, Y, Helen Healy, Im, SJ, Yue Xu, Jason Watson, Healy, H, Sea Jung Im, Ann Bonner, Watson, J, Bonner, A   +11 more
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