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Readmission Elderly Critically Patients

2019
The percentage of the elderly population over the world is expected to increase by 2050 [1–3]. With such progressive changes in the elderly population profile and aging, intensive care becomes in high demand to treat elderly patients with an increased number of comorbidities and daily life limitations [1].
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Hospital Readmissions: Patient, Carer and Clinician Views

Acute Medicine Journal, 2006
Aim: To explore patients, carers, and clinician views and identify factors, which affect the likelihood of hospital readmission. Methods: A cross sectional retrospective study of adult medical patients readmitted to hospital within 28 days of discharge.
Elinor, Kirk, M K, Prasad, A H, Abdelhafiz   +2 more
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Patients' Perspectives on Reasons for Unplanned Readmissions

Journal for Healthcare Quality, 2019
ABSTRACT Massachusetts has one of the highest rates of 30-day readmissions in the country. To identify patient-reported factors that may contribute to readmissions, we conducted semi-structured interviews with patients with unplanned readmissions within 30 days of inpatient discharge from the medicine services at an urban medical center ...
Amy M, LeClair, Megan, Sweeney, Grace H, Yoon, Jana C, Leary, Saul N, Weingart, Karen M, Freund   +5 more
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Unplanned readmissions of elderly patients.

Health bulletin, 1997
This study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of unplanned readmissions in Geriatric Medicine in Aberdeen and to examine their nature in order to establish how many of them were avoidable.Patients living within Aberdeen who were discharged from Care of the Elderly Assessment Wards in one hospital between 1 August 1994 and 31 January 1995 were ...
P, Gautam, C, Macduff, I, Brown, J, Squair   +3 more
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COVID-19 Readmissions: Main Patient Characteristics

Journal of Patient Safety, 2022
Carlos, Kerguelen, Mariana, Vasquez-Roldan, José, de la Hoz-Valle   +2 more
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Maximizing Readmission Reduction in Colon Cancer Patients

Journal of Surgical Research
Multiple studies have identified risk factors for readmission in colon cancer patients. We need to determine which risk factors, when modified, produce the greatest decrease in readmission for patients so that limited resources can be used most effectively by implementing targeted evidence-based performance improvements.
Mario Schootman, Chenghui Li, Jun Ying, Sonia T. Orcutt, Jonathan Laryea   +4 more
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Government warned about penalties for patient readmission

Emergency Nurse, 2011
GOVERNMENT PLANS to impose financial penalties on acute trusts that readmit patients within 30 days of their hospital stays or operations could prove costly and be detrimental to patient care, a report has warned.
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Precipitating factors of readmission of psychiatric patients

Community Mental Health Journal, 1974
Responses to an interview guide by 100 mentally ill patients suggested that vocational, social, and self factors, respectively, were precipitating factors in the rehospitalization process. The results suggested the respondents' realistic viewpoints regarding the significance of employment, but a nonrealistic viewpoint about the significance of self.
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Beyond Readmission: Improving Patient-Centered Care

Journal of Surgical Research, 2019
Melanie S, Morris, Mary T, Hawn
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Readmission of psychiatric patients

Nursing Research, 1967
Marguerite A. Fason, A. G. Hargreaves
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