... adverse event. The lack of standards for hospital discharge often leads to increased patient morbidity, ... groups in total cost (combining actual hospital utilization cost and estimated outpatient cost) ...
... lives of heart failure patients and reducing hospital admissions,” Kulshreshtha said.
An estimated 5.3 million Americans have heart failure. Hospital discharges for heart failure rose from 400, ...
... took place 6 to 12 months after hospital discharge. The 20-minute interview assessed ... help clinicians ensure safe care in the hospital and in ambulatory settings. It's pretty clear that they can teach ...
... representative survey provides annual estimates of hospital discharges in the United States. In the study, heart ... women, rates rose from 13.95 hospitalizations per 1,000 members of the population to ...
... year had the lowest death rates at the time of hospital discharge, at 2.2 percent.
Angioplasty ... motivation for expanding elective angioplasty to community hospitals without on-site cardiac surgery so ...
... cell disease. A total of 70,748 hospital discharges of sickle cell disease patients ... period after TCD screening began at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia with that of the eight-year period prior ...
... at UCSF and chief of general internal medicine at SFGH.
The analysis of Medicaid enrollment and hospital discharge data for more than four million California adults examines the number of Medicaid ...
... every fee-for-serves Medicare-eligible hospital discharge in the United States. There were 4,750 ... estimate of public access to tPA- treating hospitals.
"Such nationally-based resource utilization data ...
... shows that against medical advice discharges represent as many as 2 percent of all hospital discharges. Those patients represent an at-risk group for both morbidity and mortality, according to the ...
... CA, a large metropolitan county of three million people, using a retrospective evaluation of 2005 California Hospital Discharge Data. Huang and colleagues examined the likelihood that adult patients ...
... including: interventions to better educate patients about self-care in the hospital discharge process; helping hospitals better understand their comparative performance on readmissions by providing ...
... (n = 201) included transitional housing after hospitalization discharge, followed by placement in long-term housing ... per year, and a reduction of 2.7 hospital days/person per year in the intervention ...
... .C.P.C., of St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, and the University of Toronto, and colleagues evaluated ... First, if affected patients survive to hospital discharge, then they remain at high risk of needing ...
... who have an in-hospital cardiac arrest are significantly less likely to survive to hospital discharge, having lower rates of successful resuscitation and postresuscitation survival, although much of ...
... service (EMS) providers before the first attempted defibrillation and survival to hospital discharge. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a leading cause of premature death worldwide, and survival is ...
