Articles Tagged With: readmissions
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Is It Better to Up-Titrate Medications Faster in Acute Heart Failure Patients?
Early intensive up-titration of guideline-recommended therapy in patients admitted for heart failure reduced 180-day readmission and all-cause mortality rates at the cost of more adverse events (but not serious or fatal ones).
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Hispanic Patients with Diabetes Need Better Care Transition Models
About one in 10 Americans are diagnosed with diabetes, and the Hispanic/Latino population is disproportionately affected. Their risk is higher — and their outcomes are worse — than the white, non-Hispanic population. Researchers designed a transition of care model and pilot to see if they could improve outcomes.
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How Case Managers Can Improve SDOH Assessments
Case managers can use several different tactics to improve their assessments of social determinants of health. These may require extra time, but they can yield big rewards in terms of patients’ health and preventing readmissions.
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Better Care Coordination Needed for Interhospital Transfers
Interhospital transfers can be challenging and frustrating for nursing staff — and sometimes dangerous and tragic for patients and their families. Health systems should pay more attention to how these transfers are handled and work to improve communication between sending and receiving hospitals.
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Hospital Initiative Reduces 30-Day Readmission Rate for Heart Failure
A hospital’s heart failure pilot program showed great promise when it launched in late 2019, but is ready for a reboot in the post-pandemic era. The program led to a double-digit drop in the 30-day readmission rate for heart failure patients.
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Build a Healthy Relationship with Insurance Providers
It can be a tense relationship. Healthcare systems and providers — including case managers — have admitted it sometimes feels like insurance is the enemy, and patients have been known to carry that same sentiment. How should case managers and other healthcare professionals work out a healthy connection with insurance companies, and even work to strengthen that connection to help build a more positive view of the relationship among healthcare, insurance, and the patient?
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Care Coordination, Value-Based Care, and Reducing Medicare Spend
Insurers and CMS have encouraged providers and health systems to adopt value-based care to lower healthcare costs and increase competitive positioning. Investing in value-based care means a greater emphasis on the primary care physician and preventing hospital admissions and readmissions. -
Taking Action from Estimated Date of Discharge Analytics
With so much data available for analysis, it can be challenging to know exactly how to use each piece to truly maximize its value. One of these bits of data case managers can and should unlock and apply is estimated date of discharge. -
Chatbots Can Help Care Managers Provide Ethical Treatment
There is no way around it — health systems are facing an ongoing shortage of clinicians to meet the needs of patients who require longitudinal care management. Chatbot technology turned out to be at least a partial solution to all these problems. The chatbots ask about the patient’s weight, blood pressure, and self-care behaviors. -
Link Found Between Stroke Patient Readmission Disparities and Minority Status
Black stroke patients are more likely to be readmitted to the hospital than white stroke patients, but this gap closes in hospitals with better nurse staffing levels, investigators found. These patients could experience better outcomes if hospitals allocate nursing resources in a way that appropriately addresses their additional, extenuating concerns and issues.