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A hospital readmission is an episode when a patient who had been discharged from a hospital is admitted again within a specified time interval. Readmission rates have increasingly been used as an outcome measure in health services research and as a quality benchmark for health systems. Generally, higher readmission rate indicates ...
Discharge planning processes can be effective in reducing a patient's length of stay in hospital. For example, for older people admitted with a medical condition, discharge planning has been shown to improve satisfaction, reduce the overall length of stay, and within 3-month period reduce the likelihood of readmission. [ 4 ]
The only currently nationally endorsed measure of transitional care quality is the Care Transitions Measure (CTM), which is a 15-item survey for administration to patients after discharge from the hospital. [6] The measure also exists as a 3-item survey. Patient responses to the survey predicts return to the emergency department and/or hospital ...
Cigna Study: Post-Hospital Discharge Outreach Reduces Readmissions 22 Percent for High Risk Gastrointestinal, Heart and Lower Respiratory Patients BLOOMFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Arandomized ...
An evaluation published in late 2007 showed that 117 patients who received "ProvenCare" had a significantly shorter total length of stay (resulting in 5% lower hospital charges), a greater likelihood of being discharged to home, and a lower readmission rate compared with 137 patients who received conventional care in 2005. [22]
APACHE II ("Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II") is a severity-of-disease classification system, [1] one of several ICU scoring systems.It is applied within 24 hours of admission of a patient to an intensive care unit (ICU): an integer score from 0 to 71 is computed based on several measurements; higher scores correspond to more severe disease and a higher risk of death.
CareMore's average length of stay is 3.7 days compared to a FFS average of 5.2 days. Bed days per 1000 is 48% lower, diabetic amputation rate is 67% lower, and end-state renal disease hospital admissions are 50% lower. [4] From a cost perspective, CareMore has reported an 18% reduction versus the industry average. [2]
Police in New Mexico said a 16-year-old teen killed four members of his family including his mom, dad and siblings over the weekend.