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Prediction of 30-day unplanned hospital readmission among elderly patients using patient and ward level factors [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Hospital readmission among elderly patients in sub-Saharan Africa, where health systems are constrained, is a critical yet poorly understood challenge. Although patient-level risk factors are established, the role of modifiable ward-level organizational ...
Awoke Fetahi Woudneh
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Predictors of and hospital-level variation in intensive care unit readmissions in Japan: a nationwide inpatient database study [PDF]

Journal of Intensive Care
Background Intensive care unit (ICU) readmission is a widely recognized marker of patient outcomes and organizational performance. Early ICU readmission—commonly defined as a return to the ICU within 48 h or 2 full calendar days—has been posited as a ...
Hiroyuki Ohbe, Yusuke Sasabuchi, Yuya Kimura, Hiroki Matsui, Kiyohide Fushimi, Hideo Yasunaga, Daisuke Kudo   +6 more
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Corticosteroid use before ICU admission and 90-day all-cause readmission risk in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an analysis of the MIMIC-IV database. [PDF]

J Thorac Dis
Jiang C, Huang J, Chen B, Yang S.
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Predisposing factors for high output stoma in patients with a diverting loop ileostomy after colorectal surgeries [PDF]

Annals of Coloproctology, 2023
Purpose One of the most common ileostomy-related complications is high output stoma (HOS) which causes significant fluids and electrolytes disturbances. We aimed to analyze the incidence, severity, and risk factors for readmission for HOS.
Dan Assaf, David Hazzan, Almog Ben-Yaacov, Shachar Laks, Douglas Zippel, Lior Segev   +5 more
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Strategies to implement the safe hospital-community transition and mitigate hospital readmissions

Revista Ciências em Saúde, 2021
Transition is defined as a journey made by a person between two relatively stable moments. This experience is lived over a certain period and is characterized by the appearance of changes that cause imbalances, doubts, disorganization, and interpersonal ...
Óscar Manuel Ramos Ferreira, Cristina Lavareda Baixinho   +1 more
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Readmission After COPD Exacerbation Scale: determining 30-day readmission risk for COPD patients

International Journal of COPD, 2017
Christine SM Lau,1,2 Brianna L Siracuse,1 Ronald S Chamberlain1–4 1Department of Surgery, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ, USA; 2Saint George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies; 3Department of Surgery, New ...
Lau CSM, Siracuse BL, Chamberlain RS
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Impact of Clinical Pharmacists-driven Bundled Activities from Admission to Discharge on 90-day Hospital Readmissions and Emergency Department Visits

Oman Medical Journal, 2023
Objectives: Patient-centered clinical pharmacists’ activities play a major role in improving clinical outcomes by optimizing the efficacy of drug therapies and minimizing associated toxicities during hospitalization, at the transition of care, and upon ...
Bayan Muhannad Al Abd, Juhaina Salim Al-Maqbali, Ibrahim Al-Zakwani   +2 more
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Readmission after discharge from acute mental healthcare among 231 988 people in England: cohort study exploring predictors of readmission including availability of acute day units in local areas

BJPsych Open, 2021
Background In the UK, acute mental healthcare is provided by in-patient wards and crisis resolution teams. Readmission to acute care following discharge is common. Acute day units (ADUs) are also provided in some areas.
David P. J. Osborn, Graziella Favarato, Danielle Lamb, Terri Harper, Sonia Johnson, Brynmor Lloyd-Evans, Louise Marston, Vanessa Pinfold, Deb Smith, James B. Kirkbride, Scott Weich   +10 more
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Readmission prediction via deep contextual embedding of clinical concepts. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Hospital readmission costs a lot of money every year. Many hospital readmissions are avoidable, and excessive hospital readmissions could also be harmful to the patients.
Cao Xiao, Tengfei Ma, Adji B Dieng, David M Blei, Fei Wang   +4 more
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Development and Internal Validation of an Interpretable Machine Learning Model to Predict Readmissions in a United States Healthcare System

Informatics, 2023
(1) One in four hospital readmissions is potentially preventable. Machine learning (ML) models have been developed to predict hospital readmissions and risk-stratify patients, but thus far they have been limited in clinical applicability, timeliness, and
Amanda L. Luo, Akshay Ravi, Simone Arvisais-Anhalt, Anoop N. Muniyappa, Xinran Liu, Shan Wang   +5 more
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