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Complimentary from the publishers of Readmissions News July 2018

"The highest risk group today is senior orphans for 30 day readmissions; the next highest group is adults with disabilities without adequate family support. The most frequent reason is often medication noncompliance or side effects of new medicines, as well as infections. Older adults with no one to help them at home after an illness can often get confused, fall, become dehydrated or malnourished with no one around to notice.”
-Teri Dreher, RN, CCRN, iRNPA, Owner/CEO, NShore Patient Advocates.

"For their study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Graham and her colleagues examined information on 822 general medicine patients readmitted to 10 academic medical centers in the United States. Overall, 36.2% of early readmissions versus 23.0% of late readmissions were deemed preventable."

Excerpted from: Readmissions News, Volume 7, Number 7, July 2018, Industry News: "Hospitals May Take Too Much of the Blame for Unplanned Readmissions."

Baseline psychiatric diagnoses lead to increased hospital length-of-stay & early readmissions

This talk was presented at the 2018 SAGES Meeting/16th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery by Anahita D. Jalilvand during the SS09: Bariatrics 2 Session in April i2018.

Amy Deutschendorf, MS, RN: 5 categories of readmissions causes

1. poor care coordination
2. problems with the quality of care during the first admission
3. Click to continue

Source: ACP Hospitalist, July 2018

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