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Factors associated with readmission to the hospital within 30 days in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Management of inpatients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) requires increasing resources. We aimed to identify factors associated with hospital readmissions among individuals with IBD.We collected data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
Dejan Micic, John N Gaetano, Jonah N Rubin, Russell D Cohen, Atsushi Sakuraba, David T Rubin, Joel Pekow   +6 more
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The influence of changes in activity-based financing on hospital readmissions for the elderly

Nordic Journal of Health Economics, 2016
Activity-based financing of Norwegian hospitals was implemented in 1997. An earlier study shows that when the activity-based component increases, the average length of stay for the elderly is reduced.
Jun Yin, Fredrik A. Dahl, Terje P. Hagen, Hilde Lurås   +3 more
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Hospital readmission within 30 days of older adults hospitalized in a public hospital

Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2022
Older adults have difficulty monitoring their drug therapy in the first thirty days following hospital discharge. This transition care period may trigger hospital readmissions.
Fabiana Silvestre dos Santos, Adriano Max Moreira Reis   +1 more
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Quality of discharge letters concerning readmissions to mental healthcare: case-control study

BJPsych Open
We investigated the quality of 100 discharge letters from mental health specialists to better understand the role of cross-sectoral communication in patients’ readmissions or other unplanned recontacts with mental health specialist care.
Miriam Hartveit, Harald Bjarne Hellesen, Jostein Helgeland, Olav Thorsen, Jörg Assmus, Eva Biringer   +5 more
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A Study of Causes of Readmission Patients Toxicological Ward of the Loghman Hakim Hospital, in Tehran in 2014

Bihdād, 2016
Introduction: Readmission to hospital because of the impact on the cost and quality of hospital care and Impose an additional burden on the healthcare system, Is an important priority for hospital managers.
R. Ghasempour, A.A. Nasiripour, S.M. Hosseini   +2 more
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Who is High Risk Elderly Patient?

İstanbul Medical Journal, 2017
The acute and post-acute care of the elderly is a process fraught with problems. Elderly patients at high risk are individuals who have to be admitted more frequently to a hospital due to developed complications, who are faced with a constant risk of ...
Mehmet İlkin Naharcı
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Predictors for readmission following primary total hip and total knee arthroplasty

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2020
Background: Readmission following total joint arthroplasty has become a closely watched metric for many hospitals in the United States due to financial penalties imposed by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Ong-art Phruetthiphat, Jesse E Otero, Biagio Zampogna, Sebastiano Vasta, Yubo Gao, John J Callaghan   +5 more
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Utilization of a multidisciplinary hospital-based approach to reduce readmission rates

SAGE Open Medicine
Background: Hospital readmissions remain a significant and pressing issue in our healthcare system. In 2010, the Affordable Care Act helped establish the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, which incentivized reducing readmission rates by ...
Barry Hahn, Trever Ball, Wassim Diab, Chris Choi, Hallie Bleau, Anne Flynn   +5 more
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Incidence and predictors of readmission to the cardiac surgery intensive care unit: A retrospective cohort study in Greece

Annals of Thoracic Medicine, 2014
Introduction: Readmission in the intensive care unit (ICU) is a significant morbidity index, which has been related to poor patient outcomes Aim: To identify the preoperative and intraoperative risk factors for readmission in the cardiac surgery ICU ...
Konstantinos Giakoumidakis, Rokeia Eltheni, Athina Patelarou, Vasileios Patris, Manoj Kuduvalli, Hero Brokalaki   +5 more
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Prediction of 30-day unplanned hospital readmission among elderly patients using patient and ward level factors

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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