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Search Results for Patient Readmission
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) instituted the Readmissions Reduction Program to incentivize improvements in care transitions for patients with several common and serious illnesses, including heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, pneumonia, and more recently COPD exacerbations. The HOSPITAL score has been shown to accurately identify medical patients at high-risk for 30-day […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) instituted the Readmissions Reduction Program to incentivize improvements in care transitions for patients with several common and serious illnesses, including heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, pneumonia, and more recently COPD exacerbations. The HOSPITAL score has been shown to accurately identify medical patients at high-risk for 30-day […]
Abstract Number: 308
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: In order to most efficiently improve transition of care, hospitals need to target intensive discharge interventions at those patients at high risk of unplanned readmission. The “HOSPITAL” score, derived previously in the US, is an easy to use prediction model that accurately identifies medical patients at high risk of readmission. It includes the following […]
Abstract Number: 337
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Transitions from hospitals to the ambulatory setting are high risk periods for patients. The advent of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) provide an opportunity for true collaboration in which both inpatient and outpatient providers contribute to improving transitions in care. The goal of this study was to develop, implement, […]