One of the key reasons that was found to be a factor in readmissions is that insurance companies continue to push for shorter hospital stays. They have reduced the number of days that they will pay for certain conditions. This was found to be a key Continue Reading...
causes for Medicare and Medicaid patients to be readmitted to hospitals within thirty days of a prior discharge. This is a fairly pervasive and major problem and it is one that demands solutions. As part of this capstone, there will be a number of f Continue Reading...
Hospital Readmissions In any profession today, quality control means the prevention of problems that were the aim of the business to solve in the first places. Recurrence of these problems means that the business has not been functioning optimally a Continue Reading...
Hospice care is a kind of philosophy and care that centers on the palliation of a patient who is seriusly or terminally ill. Hospice care includes tending to the patient's pain and symptoms as well as their emotional and spiritual needs. The proposed Continue Reading...
Patient Education Patients education Patient education can be described as a process by which majorly health professionals and other related stakeholders impart information to patients together with their caregivers so that there can be improvement Continue Reading...
DESIGN FOR CHANGE PROPOSAL Re-hospitalization of older adults has become prevalent in most of the health facilities in Canada, posing financial challenges for the health system as well as the older adults. Besides the rise in healthcare expenses that Continue Reading...
Readmission of Heart Failure Patients Re-Hospitalization and Heart Failure Patients Heart failure is one of the top health problems in the United States leading to high rates of morbidity and mortality among people aged 60 years and above. The comp Continue Reading...
Hospitals with more elderly, poor patients likely to face readmission penalties" by Katie Sullivan (January 8, 2014) Are some hospitals discharging patients before they are ready, causing them to be subsequently readmitted? This would seem to be th Continue Reading...
Readmission of patients with diabetes is a problem that warrants consideration of the contributing factors. Readmission of patients within 30 days of discharge is considered to be an indicator of healthcare quality -- along with other circumstances, Continue Reading...
Quality Indicator Healthcare Quality Indicators With the adoption of the Affordable Care Act, also now commonly referred to as Obamacare, the array of quality indicators used to assess healthcare facility performance has expanded. The addition of a Continue Reading...
Topic: Pneumonia readmissions among nursing home residents 65 years and older in the United States of America. Backdrop of the dilemma Pneumonia remains an extreme health condition in America. It accounts for roughly 1 million medical-center admiss Continue Reading...
Psychiatric Readmission Implementation of Strategies to Reduce Psychiatric Readmission To this end, it is clear that hospital readmission remains a prevalent phenomenon in adult psychiatric patients, placing a huge morbidity and economic burden on Continue Reading...
Quality Improvement Project Diabetes -- Chronic Condition Background Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Risk factors for type 1 diabetes Risk factors for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes Risk factors for gestational diabetes The Rationale for Selection Continue Reading...
Myocardial Infarction Minimizing Hospital Readmission Phase 1: EBP for Effective Patient Care Transition Donald, an acute myocardial infarction (MI) patient, has undergone angioplasty, a procedure in which a catheter is inserted into clogged arteries Continue Reading...
Preventing 30 Day Readmission on Medicare and Medicaid Patients One of the most costly and common phenomenon in the modern healthcare system is the increased rates of readmission to hospital of Medicare and Medicaid patients within a short period a Continue Reading...
AbstractThe problem is extended wait times among paediatric patients at the selected Paediatric Emergency Department (PED). This is a result of failure by nurses and clinicians to effectively educate patients at discharge, which causes many patients Continue Reading...
This is intended to be a working tool to assist you with organization of evidence for the Capstone Narrative Paper. Do not use Systematic Reviews or Meta-analysis studies for this assignment. Only primary research should be entered on this grid. Only Continue Reading...
The results of this analysis highlight the need for hospitals to fine-tune their discharge process to reduce readmissions, and support the expenditure of additional resources for this purpose as a cost-effective intervention; as an example, author c Continue Reading...
Lagoe, R.J., et. al. (13 Aug 1999) "Analyzing hospital readmissions using statewide discharge databases." Nursing Care Quarterly 13(6): 57-67. Why did the authors select hospital readmissions as a way to evaluate the quality of care for these DRGs? Continue Reading...
safe Transition • in October 2012, made Medicare payment rules. Hospitals penalized a patient returns 30 days treatment problem. One targeted medical diagnoses payment change heart failure (HF). Making a safe transition Heart failure medicat Continue Reading...
The Affordable Care Act means that health coverage will be required for almost every American and will be partially subsidized. However, it will not change the employer-centric, private-insurer-based system of financing and coverage. Demand for care Continue Reading...
Nurses Perception: Effects of the New Sickle Cell Disease Program on the Management and Care Ofadults With Sickle Cell Disease Description of the relationship between extant literature and the hypothesis Description of the research design Descript Continue Reading...
Acute care facilities try to maintain low costs and employ quality nurses. Within this statement is a double standard. How can we have quality nurses and cut costs at the same time? This is where the skill mix comes into play. In the skill mix, the Continue Reading...
Health Education on Re-Hospitalization of Patients With Chronic Heart Failure The heart failure is one of the top health problems in the United States leading to high rate of morbidity and mortality among people aged 60 years and above. The complic Continue Reading...
Summary of Two Articles1: Quantitative StudyHospital Readmission Performance and Patterns of Readmission: Retrospective Cohort Study of Medicare AdmissionsProblem StatementThe problem that is addressed by Dharmarajan, Hsieh, Lin et al. (2013) in thei Continue Reading...
Discharge Education to Promote Self-Efficacy in Heart Failure An Education Intervention For Patients With Heart Failure Management of congestive heart failure (CHF) continues to be a financial burden on the economy of the United States of America ( Continue Reading...
How Does the Use of In-home Monitoring for CHF Impact Re-hospitalization Rates? Impact on In-home Monitoring for CHF on Re-hospitalization Rates Congestive heart failure (CHF) is one of the major cardiovascular diseases with high global incidence and Continue Reading...
Health Information Improving Healthcare with Personal Health Records (PHRs) With the inception of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2012, the United States began undertaking the most dramatic reconfiguration of its healthcare system Continue Reading...
DISSEMINATION OF THE DNP PROJECT FINDINGS AbstractThe problem is extended wait times among paediatric patients at the selected Paediatric Emergency Department (PED). The failure by nurses and clinicians to effectively educate patients at discharge ca Continue Reading...
Self-Care Management for Bipolar Patients to Prevent Re-admissionBipolar disorder is a serious mental health disorder characterized by what could, in basic terms, be defined as extreme mood swings. To a large extent, it is a condition that could be e Continue Reading...
Telemedicine: How does it impact patient care? Introduction The modern health care system is better and considerably more complex than what the situation previously was a decade and several decades ago. According to various researchers, the modern he Continue Reading...
Ineffective Communication Between Shifts in Acute Care Settings Significant A recent statistics of the adverse effects arisen from ineffective communication between shifts in acute care setting range from 2.6% to 7.6%, however, Okoniewska, et al. ( Continue Reading...
