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	"For a hospital covering 250 severe COPD patients, reduction of readmissions led to cumulative savings of $402,981 over 30 days." Excerpted from: Readmissions News, Volume 6, Number 5, May 2017, "Industry News: New study with Philips Trilogy reveals payers and hospitals can save millions in readmission costs, hospitalization rates for COPD patients."
	Economic Evaluation of Interventions Designed to Prevent Readmission JAMA Internal Medicine, abstract only, May 30, 2017
	Nurse follow-up calls to elderly patients don't prevent readmissions, study says FierceHealthcare, May 26, 2017
	Six-minute walk distance predicts 30-day readmission after acute heart failure Heart and Lung, abstract only, May 24, 2017
	Loopback Analytics Helps UTMC Cut Readmissions and Increase Profitability PR Newswire, May 23, 2017
	Association Between Hospitals' Value-Based Reforms and Readmission Rand Corporation, May 23, 2017
	Quality Improvement Organizations avoided readmissions in 2016, CMS says FierceHealthcare, May 22, 2017
	"Meds-to-Beds" programs aim to improve patient engagement, readmission MedCity News, May 17, 2017
	Short and long heart failure stays associated with more readmissions ACP Hospitalist, May 17, 2017
	Most Hospitals Received Annual Penalties For Excess Readmissions Health Affairs, abstract only, May 2017
	Reducing SNF Readmissions: Clinical Targets, Quality Scorecards Health Intelligence Network blog, May 23, 2017 The Surprising Way to Reduce Readmissions in Rural Hospitals relyMD blog, May 15, 2017
	Readmission Related to Heart Failure by Byomesh Tripathi, MD; Shilpkumar Arora, MD, MPH; Sopan Lahewala Going Beyond Medication Reconciliation: How Pharmacists Can Prevent Readmissions Through Comprehensive Medication Management by Danielle Colayco, Kevin Komoto, Weiyi Ni, and Jonathan Hashimoto Paid and Unpaid Informal Caregiving in Preventing Readmissions: Example of Medicare Home Health Beneficiaries by Hsueh-Fen Chen, Ph.D. Thought Leaders' Corner: How should the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program take into account Dual-Eligibles? Industry News with briefs regarding the Visiting Nurses Association, Philips and Surescripts. Catching up with... Sandy Smith Click here to view page one of this issue Click here to subscribe to Readmissions News, or find out more
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