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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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Triumph of hope over experience: learning from interventions to reduce avoidable hospital admissions identified through an Academic Health and Social Care Network.

, 2012
BACKGROUND: Internationally health services are facing increasing demands due to new and more expensive health technologies and treatments, coupled with the needs of an ageing population.
Woodhams, V, Head, Graham, Al-Sharifi, H, Woodhams, Victoria, Hilton, Sean, Head, G, Desombre, Terry, Debar Safia, Al Sharifi, Houda, Desombre Terry, Debar, Safia, Debar, S, Mughal, S, Desombre, T, Hilton, S, Head Graham, Al Sharifi Houda, de Lusignan Simon, Desombre, TR, Mughal, Shakeel, de Lusignan, S, de Lusignan, Simon, Mughal Shakeel, Woodhams Victoria, Hilton Sean, Al Sharifi, H   +25 more
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Genomic Insights Into Risperidone Treatment Outcomes in Children and Adolescents: Experience From a Psychiatric Hospital Serving Rural Youth

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Risperidone is a commonly used antipsychotic for treating psychiatric illness in children and adolescents. There is a large variability in risperidone response and discontinuation rates remain high. Pharmacogenomics offers the opportunity to improve risperidone outcomes, yet studies in pediatric populations are limited.
Jack W. Staples, Shayna R. Killam, Karen E. Brown, Rachel Dalton, Elizabeth Sather, Qiang Chen, Joshua Loveland, Corbin Schwanke, Abdallah F. Elias, Kristin L. Bigos, Erica L. Woodahl   +10 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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Therapist‐Guided Smartphone‐Based Aftercare for Inpatients With Severe Anorexia Nervosa (SMART‐AN): A Randomized Clinical Trial

International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the efficacy of a 16‐week therapist‐guided, smartphone‐based aftercare intervention as an add‐on to treatment as usual (TAU) following inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa (AN). Method In this single‐center randomized clinical trial, 186 female inpatients with DSM‐5 AN (≥ 13 years; body mass index (BMI) ≥ 15.0 kg/m2 ...
Sandra Schlegl, Andreas Gerich, Yannik Terhorst, Christina Fricke Neumayr, Ulrich Voderholzer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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Implementing PODS (Patient Oriented Discharge Summary) in an acute medical urban health setting in Vancouver, Canada

, 2021
The transition from hospital to home or community is a vulnerable time for patients and families, who face risks associated with misunderstanding instructions about medications, self-monitoring and when to seek emergency care.
Kate McNamee, Nixon, Suzanne, Cheryl Prinzen, Beena Parappilly, Parappilly, Beena, MacDonald, Jay, Cuthbertson, Lena, Prinzen, Cheryl, Suzanne Nixon, Wallsworth, Christine, Agnes Black, Black, Agnes T, Agnes T Black, MacLeod Meghan, Lena Cuthbertson, McNamee, Kate, Jay MacDonald, Christine Wallsworth, Meghan, MacLeod   +18 more
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Epidemiology of Intensive Nutritional Interventions and Restraints in Hospitalizations for Anorexia Nervosa: Annual National Trends of the United States

International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Despite the clinical relevance of enteral and parenteral tube feeding and restraint use in anorexia nervosa (AN), national‐level data on their use have remained limited, particularly for total parenteral nutrition (TPN) and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG).
Hiroyasu Ino, Nancy S. Jecker, Yoshiyuki Takimoto, Eisuke Nakazawa   +3 more
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Predictive Risk Modelling for Hospital Readmissions

, 2014
This thesis is concerned with developing a predictive risk model to identify patients that are at high risk of readmission to hospital. Such a model should have a desirable level of predictive accuracy but also, should be financially beneficial to the ...
Forsythe, Claire Elizabeth
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Patient-reported oncology readmission factors.

, 2012
48 Background: Reducing the risk of readmissions is an important quality goal for hospitals. Little is known of the perspectives of patients on underlying challenges that may lead to readmission.
Tracey L. Evans, Nandita Mitra, Shreya Kangovi   +2 more
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