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NewsReadmissions are preventable, JAMA study says
Despite literature stating otherwise, a new study finds that readmissions are indeed preventable, research published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) suggests. Read more...
Source of readmissions: hospital admissions, not discharge planning
Hospitals in areas that have high admission rates also have a high propensity for readmission rates, according to a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers at Read more...
Surgery patient readmissions cost $300M, Johns Hopkins says
Nearly one in four colorectal surgery patients are readmitted within 90 days, costing the nation $300 million a year, according to a report by Johns Hopkins researchers to be published in the Read more...
Readmission penalties unfairly hurt urban hospitals, critics say
Hospitals nationwide are trying to keep patients from returning to their facilities, especially with Medicare penalizing institutions with high readmissions rates starting in 2013. But urban Read more...
Hospitals target high-risk patients by predicting readmissions
Under reimbursement pressures, hospitals are examining ways to prevent readmissions, and some are identifying high-risk factors to predict which patients--particularly cardiac and colorectal surgery Read more...
Hospitals need better ranking for mortality, readmissions
Following a study that found hospital rankings and mortality rates are statistically imprecise and based on chance comes new research that two hospital ranking methods are only moderately correlated Read more...
Hospitals, nursing homes see readmissions drop with transitional care
With reimbursements on the line, hospitals are looking to improve their readmission rates. Hospitals, along with nursing facilities, across the country are using transitional care to keep patients Read more...
Preventable hospital readmission risk not accurate
Despite their use for determining which readmissions are preventable, models that predict hospital readmissions perform poorly, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Read more...
High-readmission hospitals use follow-up to keep patients from returning
Like other hospitals across the country, Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis suffers from high readmission rates. Twenty-eight percent of its heart failure patients on Medicare return to the Read more...
Hospital readmission rates stagnant
Despite national efforts to cut down on readmissions, hospitals only made minor progress in reducing costly readmissions over a five-year period ending in 2009, regardless of why patients were Read more...
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