Geographical variation analysis of all-cause hospital readmission cases in Winnipeg, Canada

Geographical variation analysis of all-cause hospital readmission cases in Winnipeg, Canada

BACKGROUND Hospital readmission is costly and potentially avoidable. The concept of virtual wards as a new model of care is intended to reduce hospital readmissions by providing short-term transitional care to high-risk and complex patients in the community. In order to provide information regarding the development of virtual wards in the Winnipeg Health Region, Canada, this study used spatial ...

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Social Structural Analysis of Street-Involved Youth in Winnipeg, Canada

In the present study, the social linkages of street-involved youth and correlates of infection with chlamydia and gonorrhea are explored. This is the first study to assess the social linkages of streetinvolved youth using RDS. Eleven street-involved youth aged 14 to 24 were selected as seeds to recruit their peers into the study using RDS (N=169). Study staff administered a questionnaire, obtai...

Challenges in evaluating all-cause hospital readmission measures for use as national consensus standards.

CONTEXT The National Quality Forum (NQF) aims to improve the quality of health care for all Americans through fulfillment of its three-part mission. The NQF uses its formal Consensus Development Process to evaluate and endorse consensus standards, including performance measures, best practices, frameworks, and reporting guidelines. OBJECTIVE To understand the opportunities and challenges in e...

Predicting all-cause risk of 30-day hospital readmission using artificial neural networks

Avoidable hospital readmissions not only contribute to the high costs of healthcare in the US, but also have an impact on the quality of care for patients. Large scale adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) has created the opportunity to proactively identify patients with high risk of hospital readmission, and apply effective interventions to mitigate that risk. To that end, in the past, n...