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Improving Care Transitions for Hospitalized Veterans Discharged to Skilled Nursing Facilities: A Focus on Polypharmacy and Geriatric Syndromes

open access: yesGeriatrics, 2019
Geriatric syndromes and polypharmacy are common in older patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and increase 30-day readmission risk. In a U.S.A.
Amanda S. Mixon   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Employment Status, Readmission and Mortality After Acute Exacerbation of COPD

open access: yesInternational Journal of COPD, 2021
Peter Ascanius Jacobsen,1,2 Kristian Hay Kragholm,2,3 Christian Torp-Pedersen,4 Daisy JA Janssen,5,6 Martijn A Spruit,5,7,8 Ulla Møller Weinreich1,2 1Department of Respiratory Diseases, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark; 2The Clinical ...
Jacobsen PA   +5 more
doaj  

Within-Hospital Readmission [PDF]

open access: yesThe Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2014
Dear Editor: Vigod et al1 found that patients in Ontario were often readmitted to another psychiatric hospital within 30 or 90 days after discharge. It was already debatable whether readmission rates could be a reliable indicator of inpatient care, given that readmission rates also depend on what kind of treatment and support are available in the ...
Dieneke, Hubbeling, David, Chang
openaire   +2 more sources

Machine Learning models for predicting 30-day readmission of elderly patients using custom target encoding approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The readmission rate is an important indicator of the hospital quality of care. With the upsetting increase in readmission rates worldwide, especially in geriatric patients, predicting unplanned readmissions becomes a very im-portant task, that can help ...
Chahed, S.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Thirty‐day hospital readmission rate, reasons, and risk factors after acute inpatient cancer rehabilitation

open access: yesCancer Medicine, 2021
Objectives To evaluate the 30‐day hospital readmission rate, reasons, and risk factors for patients with cancer who were discharged to home setting after acute inpatient rehabilitation. Design, Setting, and Participants This was a secondary retrospective
Jegy M. Tennison   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Results of a postoperative telemedicine trial after cardiac surgery and incorporation into practiceCentral MessagePerspective

open access: yesJTCVS Open, 2023
Objective: The study objective was to describe the implementation and results of a postoperative telemedicine program for adult cardiac surgery, including a clinical study and an organic postoperative telemedicine program aimed at reducing readmission ...
Maren Downing, MEng   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Determining readmission time window using mixture of generalised Erlang distribution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The absence of a unified definition of readmissions has motivated the development of a modelling approach, to systematically tackle the issue surrounding the appropriate choice of a time window which defines readmission.
Demir, E.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Postpartum readmissions for hypertensive disorders in pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemicAJOG Global Reports at a Glance

open access: yesAJOG Global Reports, 2022
BACKGROUND: Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are one of the most common causes of readmission in the postpartum period. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, early hospital discharge was encouraged for patients who were medically stable, because ...
Myah M. Griffin, MD   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reducing Hospital Readmissions in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients: Current Treatments and Preventive Strategies

open access: yesMedicina
COPD is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, so it represents a significant public health challenge. Over the years, new effective therapies have been proposed. However, the burden of COPD is still conditioned by frequent acute events defined as
Claudia Di Chiara   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of the two-year COVID-19 pandemic on hospital admission and readmissions of children and adolescents because of mental health problems

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
PurposeThis study aimed to investigate the specific risk factors and psycho-social and clinical features of hospitalized neuropsychiatric patients during the COVID pandemic and to analyze the hospital readmission phenomenon, which, according to recent ...
Alessia Raffagnato   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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