Measuring potentially avoidable hospital readmissions

P Halfon, Y Eggli, G van Melle, J Chevalier… - Journal of clinical …, 2002 - Elsevier
difficulty of determining on a case-by-case basis whether a … to the count of potentially avoidable
readmissions. Data were … Not surprisingly, these conditions describe the deterioration of …

Proportion of hospital readmissions deemed avoidable: a systematic review

C Van Walraven, C Bennett, A Jennings, PC Austin… - Cmaj, 2011 - Can Med Assoc
… of hospital readmissions and if they counted the number of … Surprisingly, studies that involved
more than one reviewer … it difficult to state with any certainty how often readmissions are …

A predictive analytics approach to reducing 30-day avoidable readmissions among patients with heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, pneumonia, or COPD

I Shams, S Ajorlou, K Yang - Health care management science, 2015 - Springer
… ) because here we count each readmission separately rather … their strength and develop
new difficulties in doing their day to … Not surprisingly, all models predict ‘No readmission’ cases …

Measuring readmission rates.

M Chambers, A Clarke - British Medical Journal, 1990 - bmj.com
… were identifiable as such and were not counted as readmissions. … Surprisingly, for each
specialty the differences in … although certain difficulties were encountered, readmission rates may …

[HTML][HTML] Hospital readmission rates: signal of failure or success?

M Laudicella, PL Donni, PC Smith - Journal of health economics, 2013 - Elsevier
… Also, we include a variable counting the total number of secondary diagnosis in the first …
Hospitals experience difficulties in maintaining appropriate levels of staff during weekends and …

ReCAP: insights Into the potential preventability of Oncology Readmissions

BR Meisenberg, E Hahn, M Binner, D Weng… - Journal of oncology …, 2016 - ascopubs.org
… for all readmitted patients was 72 days, counting from the first … a surprisingly high percentage
(35%) of all readmissions were … that is difficult to bridge. Although reduction of futile care is a …

Intelligible models for healthcare: Predicting pneumonia risk and hospital 30-day readmission

R Caruana, Y Lou, J Gehrke, P Koch, M Sturm… - Proceedings of the 21th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
… the lack of intelligibility made it difficult to know what other problems might … readmission
task the GA2M model achieves excellent accuracy while yielding a manageable, surprisingly

Measuring and preventing potentially avoidable hospital readmissions: a review of the literature

CHK Yam, ELY Wong, FWK Chan… - Hong Kong Medical …, 2010 - search.proquest.com
… in many studies, it is difficult to make valid comparison of results … Not surprisingly, there is
an increasing emphasis on … Most studies counted and studied only the first readmission after …

What is the experience of being readmitted to hospital for people 65 years and over? A review of the literature

EP Blakey, D Jackson, H Walthall… - Contemporary Nurse, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
… Some felt they could not rely on community support, others had difficulty accessing it. For …
; Perception that hospital is the only safe place and Difficulty in adapting to a “new normal”. …

Medication regimen complexity and readmissions after hospitalization for heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, pneumonia, and chronic obstructive pulmonary …

N Abou-Karam, C Bradford, KB Lor… - SAGE open …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
… , site, and medication count, medication regimen complexity … with less convenient or more
difficult to administer dosage forms (… Another surprising finding was that a significantly higher …