For Hospital Readmissions, Hindsight is Not 20/20

Hospital Readmissions for Decompensated Cirrhosis

Scope of the Problem In all disease states, early hospital readmissions are increasingly being viewed as a public health threat. Among the Medicare population, 19% of those discharged from an acute-care hospital are readmitted within 1 month, at a cost of> $17 billion, which represents nearly 20% of the Medicare budget. Patients discharged after a hospitalization for decompensated cirrhosis hav...

Reducing Hospital Readmissions

2 Introduction For most patients who leave the hospital, the last thing they want is to return anytime soon. Yet, many Medicare patients discharged from an inpatient stay find themselves back in the hospital within 30 days. Some of these readmissions are planned, and others may be part of the natural course of treatment for specific conditions; but, increasingly, some hospital readmissions are ...

Addressing Medicare Hospital Readmissions

Revisiting hospital readmissions.

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Predicting unplanned hospital readmissions

The number of unplanned readmissions is an important quality improvement indicator for Australian hospitals, as it has a direct impact on costs and patient outcomes. It is a useful indicator for patient multi-morbidity to identify patients that should potentially have different treatment or discharge plans. The objective of the Health Insights Challenge project was to develop a predictive model...