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Abstract Number: 99
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have sought to reduce readmissions through penalties applied to hospitals with readmission rates that are higher than expected, as calculated from models that use patient-level administrative data to account for case mix. Similar approaches are used to determine expected morality rates. Currently, CMS disseminates hospital-level adjusted […]
Abstract Number: D8
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Google searches for hospitals typically yield a Google star rating (GSR). These ratings are an important source of information for consumers. The degree to which GSRs are associated with traditional quality measures has not been evaluated recently. We sought to characterize the relationship between a hospital’s GSR, its Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers […]
Abstract Number: J4
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Several studies have been conducted worldwide on gender discrimination in the medical field[1]. A Japan-based study showed that although the number of female physicians in the country doubled between 1980 and 2016, less than 10% held significant positions (e.g., professor)[2]. In Japan, discriminatory admission practices in several medical schools were publicized in 2018, revealing […]
Abstract Number: 103
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Although Hospice has been associated with improved symptom management, quality of life, lower costs and length of survival in terminally ill patients, it is underutilized. The primary outcome of this study was to examine the relationship between hospice enrollment status and hospital readmissions in elderly patients with solid tumors. Secondary outcomes were length of […]
Abstract Number: 126
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Unplanned readmissions among cancer patients are common and gastrointestinal (GI) cancer has some of the highest readmission volumes. Under the Affordable Care Act, hospitals have been getting penalized for excessive readmission rates. For now, the medical treatment of cancer is exempt from this measure. This is because the readmission profile of the cancer patient […]
Abstract Number: 135
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Black seniors have historically had higher readmission rates than white seniors, and hospitals that treat more black seniors have been disproportionately penalized the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). Consequently, the policy could exacerbate racial disparities. We sought to determine whether, under the HRRP, trends in 30-day post-discharge mortality differed between black and white […]
Abstract Number: 144
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Many hospitals have focused on discharging patients before noon as a goal to improve throughput and decrease length of stay. However, those patients who can be discharged early in the day may actually represent a loss and not a win for the system, as they could have potentially been discharged the evening before. Methods: […]
Abstract Number: 144
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) in hospitalized medically ill patients is a leading preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. About half of VTE events occur following discontinuation of standard-duration in-hospital prophylaxis and hospital discharge. The APEX study evaluated Betrixaban for in-hospital to home VTE prophylaxis and is the first FDA approved anticoagulant […]
Abstract Number: 144
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Health care expenditures in the United States have been increasing exponentially while hospital care accounts for one-third of the costs. Approximately 18% of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries are being readmitted within 30 days following their discharge. As a quality measure, penalties for high readmission rates are inversely affecting the reimbursements. Currently, research on the factors […]
Abstract Number: 148
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Health care equity, one of the six domains of high-quality health care as defined by the Institute of Medicine, will only be achieved when health care outcomes do not vary based on patient social characteristics, such as gender, race, ethnicity, geographic location, and socioeconomic status. Readmission is a significant outcome for patients and health […]