• Conclusions Malnutrition in older patients at the time of hospital admission is a significant predictor of readmission or death both in the very early and in the late periods following hospital discharge. (bmj.com)
  • The authors concluded that LOS may not be a good predictor of readmission risk and that other factors, such as patient characteristics, clinical factors, discharge planning, and post-discharge follow-up, may be more important. (apstudybay.com)
  • The implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014 may have impacted the patterns and outcomes of inpatient mental health care for children and adolescents. (apstudybay.com)
  • In Indiana, inpatient prices rose 13% in hospitals that merged. (medscape.com)
  • Still, the American Hospital Association (AHA) says that mergers and acquisitions can significantly lower annual operating expenses per admission and reduce inpatient readmission rates and mortality measures. (medscape.com)
  • Impact of duty-hour restriction on resident inpatient teaching. (ahrq.gov)
  • All-Payer Model for hospitals, which shifted the state's hospital payment structure from an all-payer hospital rate setting system to an all-payer global hospital budget that encompasses inpatient and outpatient hospital services. (who.int)
  • Post-Discharge Services for Different Diagnoses Than Index Hospitalization Predict Decreased 30-Day Readmissions Among Medicare Beneficiaries. (unmc.edu)
  • Association of Post-Discharge Services Utilization and Timing with 30-Day Readmissions, Length of Stay, and Hospital Costs. (unmc.edu)
  • Objective The relationship between admission nutritional status and clinical outcomes following hospital discharge is not well established. (bmj.com)
  • This study investigated whether older patients' nutritional status at admission predicts unplanned readmission or death in the very early or late periods following hospital discharge. (bmj.com)
  • Outcome measures The impact of nutritional status was measured on a combined endpoint of any readmission or death within 0-7 days and between 8 and 180 days following hospital discharge. (bmj.com)
  • Results Within 7 days following discharge, 29 (10.5%) patients had an unplanned readmission or death whereas an additional 124 (50.0%) patients reached this combined endpoint within 8-180 days postdischarge. (bmj.com)
  • Unplanned readmissions within 30 days of discharge are considered a marker of poor quality of care and a source of avoidable costs [5]. (apstudybay.com)
  • The interventions included in the review were offered by hospital staff (eg, physicians, nurses, or other allied health professionals), and could involve the provision of advice, intensive counselling, pharmacotherapy and follow-up contact after hospital discharge. (bmj.com)
  • Although surgical site infections (SSIs) are known to cause substantial illness and costs during the index hospitalization, little information exists about the impact of infections diagnosed after discharge, which constitute the majority of SSIs. (cdc.gov)
  • With the current trends favoring a shortened postoperative hospital stay, outpatient surgery, and same-day surgery, more SSIs are occurring after discharge from the hospital and, therefore, beyond the reach of most hospital infection control surveillance programs ( 8 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Given the high costs and adverse patient outcomes associated with SSIs, quantifying the clinical and economic impact of SSIs recognized after discharge from the hospital is important. (cdc.gov)
  • Hospital participation in Medicare's Bundled Payments for Care Improvement model was not associated with changes in number of skilled nursing facility (SNF) partners or in SNF discharge concentration. (ajmc.com)
  • We used difference-in-differences analyses to assess changes in discharge patterns among BPCI-participating hospitals compared with matched control hospitals. (ajmc.com)
  • Hospital participation in BPCI was not associated with changes in the number of SNF partners or in discharge concentration relative to non-BPCI hospitals. (ajmc.com)
  • Hospitals may respond to bundled payment in ways that do not affect discharge flows, such as sharing electronic health records, monitoring SNF performance, and hiring care coordinators to track patients after discharge. (ajmc.com)
  • During the initial COVID-19 surge, one public hospital in NYC updated their post-discharge outreach approach for patients with substance use disorder, as part of the CATCH (Consult for Addiction Treatment and Care in Hospitals) program. (springer.com)
  • This is supported in part by post-discharge outreach where a peer or addiction counselor calls a patient within a week of hospital discharge to confirm their referral or receipt of MAT. (springer.com)
  • CATCH addiction counselors and peers at one NYC public hospital changed their approach by including comprehensive counseling, in-depth peer support, and tele-delivered MAT appointments with CATCH medical providers as part of their post-discharge outreach. (springer.com)
  • If hospitals are to meet Medicare directives to cut hospital readmissions, they need to do a better job of electronically gathering data on patients after discharge, says KLAS report. (informationweek.com)
  • October brings the beginning of a program hospitals around the country have been anxiously awaiting--a program that will penalize them for too-high readmission rates. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • A1 - McKinney,Maureen, PY - 2012/11/21/entrez PY - 2012/11/21/pubmed PY - 2012/12/12/medline SP - 6-7, 16, 1 JF - Modern healthcare JO - Mod Healthc VL - 42 IS - 40 N2 - October brings the beginning of a program hospitals around the country have been anxiously awaiting--a program that will penalize them for too-high readmission rates. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • The health system's computerized patient record system (CPRS) was used to obtain demographics, length of hospital stays, readmission rates, blood culture results, co-morbidities, antibiotic use, and durations of therapy. (nih.gov)
  • In post-ARP implementation, the mean length of hospital stay was also significantly reduced from 7.6 to 5.8 days (P = 0.017), and although not statistically significant, the 30-day readmission rates declined from 16.9 to 6.2% (P = 0.097). (nih.gov)
  • In addition to a decrease in the antibiotic utilization and the mean length of hospital stay, the ARP may have yielded cost savings and reduced the readmission rates for those patients admitted and treated for CAP. (nih.gov)
  • Using data on all admissions for hip replacements to Dutch hospitals and a difference-in-differences comparison between more and less concentrated markets, we find no evidence that price deregulation in a competitive environment reduces quality measured by hip replacement readmission rates. (repec.org)
  • A systematic review of 34 studies on LOS and readmission rates for adult psychiatric patients found that there was no consistent association between these two outcomes [8]. (apstudybay.com)
  • Similarly, a meta-analysis of 12 studies on LOS and readmission rates for child and adolescent psychiatric patients found that there was no significant correlation between these two outcomes [9]. (apstudybay.com)
  • A critical weakness in hospital administration, poorly timed patient discharges result in worse health, staggering rates of readmission and financial losses of untold billions. (gsu.edu)
  • Key findings include reduced length of stay, reduced readmission rates, improved Medicines Appropriateness Index, improved Medicines Administration Error rate, positive impact on Risk Adjusted Mortality Index and improved communication across the primary/secondary care interface. (bmj.com)
  • Dr. McHugh has also carried out a number of studies evaluating the impact of nurse practitioner scope-of-practice restrictions and Medicaid reimbursement rates on access to care. (upenn.edu)
  • They found hospitals facing heavier competition reduced the length of a patient's stay in hospital prior to elective surgery without shortening post-surgery stays or having higher readmission rates or higher mortality. (publicnet.co.uk)
  • In addition, her earlier research on drug policy and her interest in health care outcomes have come together-she and colleagues at MIT and Duke are investigating how post-acute access to pain specialists affects health outcomes, hospital readmission rates, and spending for patients who are admitted to the hospital and are already taking high doses of prescribed opioids. (usc.edu)
  • Individual hospital 30-day readmission rates are also compared to national averages, increasing pressure on both physicians and hospital administrators to improve outcomes. (pressmediarelease.com)
  • Hospitals that perform bronchoscopies can reduce readmission rates by over half, and potentially lower costs, by adopting single-use flexible bronchoscopes. (ambuusa.com)
  • The study compared hospital stays where oral nutritional supplements were provided with similar hospital stays that did not provide oral nutritional supplements. (kikaycorner.net)
  • I learned a lot during the talk including measures we can do to be healthy and properly nourished and how to significantly reduce hospital stays in the event we are faced with that circumstance. (kikaycorner.net)
  • Incorporating state-of-the-art remote patient monitoring technology within the virtual healthcare system can reduce the risk of avoidable hospital visits, extended stays, and re-admissions. (infobionic.com)
  • The authors suggested that LOS may have a nonlinear relationship with readmission risk, such that both very short and very long stays may increase the likelihood of readmission. (apstudybay.com)
  • This gave hospitals incentives to shift patients from one-day stays to two-day stays, or to decrease the admission of one-day stays. (bi.no)
  • Infections in cardiac surgery have been estimated to add from US$8,200 (1982 dollars) to $42,000 (1985 dollars) to the cost of care after adjustments are made for preexisting illnesses and conditions, and these increased costs are likely attributable to excess hospital and intensive care unit stays ( 4 - 6 ). (cdc.gov)
  • We can hypothesize that factors such as higher comorbidity burden, longer stays in the hospital, and more than 30-day hospital readmissions in the high-risk patient group contributed to these differences, and we plan to explore predictive factors in a future analysis. (consultantlive.com)
  • It is well documented that neither Medicare nor Medicaid covers the cost of caring for its beneficiaries, and hospitals often struggle to make up for these financial losses. (aha.org)
  • Hospital-initiated smoking cessation interventions increase the likelihood that patients will become smoke-free. (bmj.com)
  • The study estimated in-hospital mortality was 18% higher when nurses were on strike. (kare11.com)
  • We estimated that the rate of in-hospital mortality was at 18% higher when nurses were on strike, compared to before and after those nurses were on strike, and compared to other hospitals where the nurses didn't go on strike. (kare11.com)
  • ViV TAVI demonstrated better early outcomes, including reduced 30-day mortality, risk of bleeding, and hospital length of stay. (hospitalhealthcare.com)
  • I focus most of my research on studying the health sector in particular, what drives patient outcomes, and healthcare costs within the health sector and sort of the economics of that," Gruber explained. (kare11.com)
  • Surgical site infections (SSIs), the second most common cause of nosocomial infection after urinary tract infections, cause approximately 17% of all hospital-acquired infections ( 1 ) and lead to increased costs and worse patient outcomes in hospital inpatients ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Yakusheva (PD/MPI) Costa (MPI) "The impact of specialty nursing certification on patient outcomes and costs in acute care: An individual value-added performance analysis. (umich.edu)
  • Besides affecting costs, it can have significant impacts on patient outcomes and well-being, including for older adults, she says. (usc.edu)
  • July Effect': impact of the academic year-end changeover on patient outcomes. (ahrq.gov)
  • In your opinion, what are the key areas that need further research or exploration regarding COPD exacerbations and their impact on patient outcomes and healthcare resource utilization? (consultantlive.com)
  • A Charles River Associates analysis for the AHA shows that hospital acquisitions are associated with a statistically significant 3.3% reduction in annual operating expenses per admission at acquired hospitals, along with a 3.7% decrease in net patient revenue per adjusted admission. (aha.org)
  • The ″ Impact of Oral Nutritional Supplementation on Hospital Outcomes " study is a retrospective data analysis on the effect of oral nutritional supplements on hospital economic outcomes. (kikaycorner.net)
  • We conducted a 4-year retrospective study comparing 2 private accredited acute general hospitals with matched non-accredited hospitals, using difference-in-differences and adjusted covariance analyses to test the impact and value of accreditation on hospital performance measures. (who.int)
  • Prevalence and characterisation of diagnostic error among 7-day all-cause hospital medicine readmissions: a retrospective cohort study. (ahrq.gov)
  • This retrospective study aimed to assess the effects of demographics, immediate post-surgical complications and impact of time to surgical intervention on the outcome of neonates with open SB (OSB) admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital (IALCH) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (SA), between January 2011 and December 2015.Methods. (bvsalud.org)
  • MINNEAPOLIS - If anyone was going to look at the intersection of labor and health, it would be someone like MIT Economics professor Jonathan Gruber. (kare11.com)
  • We often use in health economics -- the field I specialize in -- we often use hospital readmissions as a measure of bad quality. (kare11.com)
  • She earned her Ph.D. in 1996 from Yale University with a concentration in health policy and health economics. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bradley was a hospital administrator at Massachusetts General Hospital before leading the Health Management Program at the Yale School of Public Health, Health Policy and Administration. (wikipedia.org)
  • Domestically, she has contributed to several projects including improving quality of cardiovascular care within hospital settings, understanding the relationship between state level social service spending and health outcomes, and improving the transition from acute to hospice and palliative care. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dr. Tedros Adhanom, then the Minister of Health, asked Bradley to advise 90 hospital CEOs and senior managers as part of the Ethiopian Hospital Management Initiative. (wikipedia.org)
  • The final webinar in Sepsis Core Elements: CDC Webinar Series discusses the impact of sepsis education for health care professionals during onboarding. (ama-assn.org)
  • A new health economics outcomes study, conducted by leading health economists and supported by Abbott, found that oral nutritional supplements provided to patients during hospitalization are associated with significant reductions in length of stay and hospitalization cost. (kikaycorner.net)
  • In an increasingly cost-pressured environment, health economics assessments can more comprehensively determine a therapy's true value. (kikaycorner.net)
  • said study co-author, Darius Lakdawalla PhD, Quintiles Chair in Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation, USC School of Pharmacy, and Sol Price School of Public Policy, and Director of Research, Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California . (kikaycorner.net)
  • We assess whether this fear is well founded by examining a reform that permitted Dutch health insurers to freely negotiate prices with hospitals. (repec.org)
  • Journal of Health Economics , Elsevier, vol. 72(C). (repec.org)
  • Patient hospital choice for hip replacement: empirical evidence from the Netherlands ," The European Journal of Health Economics , Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 15(9), pages 927-936, December. (repec.org)
  • To address these issues, CDEHA promotes the study of trends in demography, economics, health, and health care, and the effects of these trends on the well-being of the elderly. (stanford.edu)
  • Patients required significantly more outpatient visits, emergency room visits, radiology services, readmissions, and home health aide services than did controls. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr. Yakusheva is an economist with research interests in health economics and health services research. (umich.edu)
  • Dr. Yakusheva taught courses in health economics, applied microeconomics, microeconomic theory, decision science, and scientific writing, at both the undergraduate level and the graduate level. (umich.edu)
  • Health information technology and hospital patient safety: a conceptual model to guide research. (ahrq.gov)
  • Pooling both hospitals over 3 years, these improvements translated into total savings of US$ 593 000 in Jordan's health-care system. (who.int)
  • Until now there has been lack of independent analysis on the impact telecare is having on health and social care systems - and this is the first time the socio-economic value has been studied in this way. (echalliance.com)
  • According to the last survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, there were over 125 million outpatient department visits in a single year to U.S. hospitals. (cureatr.com)
  • papers from his AHRQ-funded study evaluating the impact of a California law mandating minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals have been published in leading policy journals including Health Affairs and The Milbank Quarterly . (upenn.edu)
  • A new study says competition in the health service in England improves hospital efficiency and could save the NHS significant amounts of money. (publicnet.co.uk)
  • One of the study's authors, Zack Cooper, said competition produced clear incentives for hospitals to become more efficient and added: "As George Osborne prepares the country for a period of financial austerity, this research helps illustrate how policy-makers get more value for money from the health service instead of having to ration care for cancer, increase waiting times or cut hospital staff. (publicnet.co.uk)
  • Jacobson says she eventually discovered that in the economics community much of the conversation regarding drug policies and their effects was taking place among health care economists at the time. (usc.edu)
  • Along with her primary appointment at the USC Leonard Davis School, Jacobson is also the co-director of the program on aging at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Economics and Policy and a research associate in the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. (usc.edu)
  • Over the past two decades, mergers have attracted attention for contributing to a decline in independent hospitals, said Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD, executive director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (medscape.com)
  • Utah's HCA Healthcare abandoned plans for to acquire five Salt Lake City area hospitals from competitor Steward Health Care System, as did RWJBarnabas Health after exploring a merger with Saint Peter's Healthcare System in New Jersey. (medscape.com)
  • Hospitals and health systems have faced historic challenges in the last several years. (aha.org)
  • A recent report released by the AHA details the extraordinary financial pressures continuing to affect hospitals and health systems, as well as access to patient care. (aha.org)
  • Hospitals and health systems have seen input cost increases for other essential operational services, as well, such as IT, sanitation, facilities management, and food and nutrition. (aha.org)
  • Merging with a hospital system can help some hospitals ease these financial burdens and improve patient care by providing scale to help reduce costs associated with obtaining medical services, supplies and prescription drugs, and enable health systems to reduce other operational costs. (aha.org)
  • An AHA analysis of the UNC Sheps Center rural hospital closure data between 2010 and 2020 showed that even though most rural community hospitals are affiliated with a health system, less than half of the hospitals that have been closed were system affiliated. (aha.org)
  • Health systems typically acquire rural hospitals when these hospitals are under financial distress. (aha.org)
  • Hospital mergers and acquisitions can bring measurable benefits to patients and communities, including lower health care costs, improved quality and better access to health care. (aha.org)
  • To the extent that hospitals help patients adopt healthful habits, their health benefits may be accompanied by financial benefits. (pressmediarelease.com)
  • Given the impact of nutrition on a patient's recovery process and overall health, the proponents of these resolutions believe the board of directors and management teams of these companies have a responsibility to their investors and stakeholders to require their hospitals to provide plant-based food options to hospital patients, staff and visitors. (pressmediarelease.com)
  • Ann Cameron, the associate director for Health Economics & Outcomes Research from ResMed shared new data which showed patients with high-risk COPD had an increased burden of comorbid conditions and relied more on COPD medications and oxygen. (consultantlive.com)
  • During today's office hours, we'll speak with David Cutler, who is the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a professor in the department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. (harvardmagazine.com)
  • I am an Affiliate Professor at the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health, Professor in the School of Economics and affiliate member of the ARC Centre for Research Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) at The University of Queensland. (edu.au)
  • I am an internationally recognised expert in the field of health economics of ageing, having contributed as a chief investigator to projects worth over $28million across economics, medicine and social science. (edu.au)
  • Through this impact, my work has positively impacted the health of many older people across the world. (edu.au)
  • In many areas, health care delivery is relatively self-contained-perhaps consisting of a major hospital, a few smaller ones, and several primary care providers. (mckinsey.com)
  • I am Dr Robert Glatter, assistant professor of emergency medicine at Northwell Health and also attending physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. (medscape.com)
  • FUNDING: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, WHO, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, World Bank, Ministry of Public Health of the People's Republic of China, Da Qing First Hospital, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, and National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases & Fuwai Hospital. (cdc.gov)
  • This approach assumes patient safety and strengthen the quality the economics of accreditation con- that underlying changes in Jordan's of health care. (who.int)
  • Quality of care reflects sist of studies concerning the explicit health system affect accredited and the degree to which health services are costs of seeking accreditation ( 14 ) non-accredited hospitals similarly. (who.int)
  • Improvement in quality is believed ( 18 ) for health-care providers and We used the intervention period, to result in fewer mistakes, shorter its high cost to hospitals might be the hospital's accreditation status and delays, improvements in productivity, a barrier to seeking accreditation the interaction term between these fac- increased market share and lower costs ( 14 ). (who.int)
  • 1 ). Hospital accreditation--a self- accreditation on health outputs and had 2 observations for each hospital: the assessment and external quality review outcomes, and the cost savings associ- first in the pre-intervention period and mechanism that checks a hospital's ated with accreditation, is helpful for the second in the intervention period. (who.int)
  • Exacerbating this pressure is the fact that Medicare and Medicaid account for most hospital utilization. (aha.org)
  • We are now doing further analysis to find out whether telecare makes a difference in the use of NHS resources, for example visits to A&E and admission and readmission to hospital. (echalliance.com)
  • Dr. McHugh has been instrumental in Penn's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Graduate Nurse Education (GNE) Demonstration Project- a $40 million Demonstration project under the Affordable Care Act, which provides reimbursement through the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (one of only five hospitals nationally) for the reasonable cost of clinical training for advanced practice registered nursing students. (upenn.edu)
  • We are continuing to discuss the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and also the effect of the Medicare Access and Chip Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and other various topics from the economics of the change in administrations. (medscape.com)
  • And we realized that by studying data from New York State because it was A, a place with a lot of nurse strikes, and B, had excellent data on hospitals that would allow us to identify the patients that were admitted during the nurse strikes. (kare11.com)
  • Design, setting and participants The study prospectively recruited 297 patients ≥60 years old who were presenting to the General Medicine Department of a tertiary care hospital in Australia. (bmj.com)
  • Additionally, the 30-day readmission risk was significantly reduced for patients with at least one known subsequent readmission. (kikaycorner.net)
  • Additionally, there was a 6.7% reduction in the probability of a 30-day readmission in patients who had at least one known subsequent readmission and were provided oral nutrition supplements during the previous hospitalization. (kikaycorner.net)
  • This is indeed good news for the 4 out of 10 hospitalized Filipino patients who are nutritionally at-risk since most of them shoulder their hospital expenses out of their own pockets. (kikaycorner.net)
  • Stuart Long, CEO of InfoBionic, recognizes the need for more sophisticated and reliable technology for advanced remote healthcare and is working to enable the first virtual telemetry system for low- to high-acuity cardiac patients in virtual or hospital-to-home care environments. (infobionic.com)
  • InfoBionic is pioneering the first virtual care, hospital-grade telemetry platform capable of supporting low- to high-acuity cardiac patients anywhere virtual care is delivered. (infobionic.com)
  • However, there is no consensus on the optimal LOS for adolescent psychiatric patients, and the relationship between LOS and unplanned readmissions is unclear. (apstudybay.com)
  • Some studies have suggested that shorter LOS may increase the risk of readmission by compromising the stabilization and continuity of care for patients [6]. (apstudybay.com)
  • Along with implementing new approaches to reducing infections among patients, hospitals will continue to provide remote services. (lark.com)
  • Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is an increasingly common service that can keep patients healthier and benefit hospitals and providers. (lark.com)
  • Hospitals used strategies such as separating infectious disease patients from patients without COVID-19, and screening patients upon entry and directing those with symptoms of COVID-19 to separate areas. (lark.com)
  • Hospitals and providers also tried to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the hospital by reducing the number of patients who needed in-person care. (lark.com)
  • There were also questions over the ability of hospitals to handle all COVID-19 patients along with their regular patient loads. (lark.com)
  • Officials claimed that shelter-in-place and safer-at-home orders, meant to "flatten the curve," helped slow the parade of COVID-19 patients into hospitals, but how can hospitals still effectively treat their usual numbers of patients while stretched to the limit with COVID-19 patients? (lark.com)
  • Focusing on orthopedic patients, I find no evidence that hospitals respond to price changes, and capacity constraints do not appear to explain this finding. (bi.no)
  • for patients with a college degree, the impact of place is negligible. (bi.no)
  • Additionally, no study has addressed the costs of SSIs that arise from most of these infections which now occur in the postdischarge setting and for which patients are not readmitted to the index hospital. (cdc.gov)
  • Under bundled payment, hospitals bear financial responsibility for SNF care but may perceive themselves as constrained in their ability to direct patients to specific providers, which may limit shifts in referral patterns. (ajmc.com)
  • Direct oral anticoagulant-related medication incidents and pharmacists' interventions in hospital in-patients: evaluation using Reason's accident causation theory. (ahrq.gov)
  • The net impact of accreditation was a 1.2 percentage point reduction in patients who returned to the ICU, 12.8% reduction in annual staff turnover and 20.0% improvement in the completeness of medical records. (who.int)
  • L'impact net de l'accréditation était une réduction de 1,2 point de pourcentage du retour des patients en soins intensifs, une baisse de 12,8 % de la rotation annuelle du personnel et une amélioration de 20 % de l'exhaustivité des dossiers médicaux. (who.int)
  • In a study of Medicare patients undergoing general, orthopedic, and vascular surgery, the Penn researchers found that hospitals with better nurse staffing and a better work environment had significantly fewer 30-day readmissions. (upenn.edu)
  • Researchers at the London School of Economics have found that hospitals in areas where patients have a great deal of choice improve their efficiency more quickly than hospitals in less competitive markets. (publicnet.co.uk)
  • The study also revealed that hospitals in competitive areas could improve their efficiency and save money without there being any negative impact on patients. (publicnet.co.uk)
  • Under the CATCH model, medically trained addiction providers, social workers, addiction counselors, and peers with lived experience in addiction engage with hospitalized patients who have diagnosed or suspected substance use disorder (SUD), including but not limited to opioid use disorder (OUD), and are admitted to the hospital for medical reasons. (springer.com)
  • 6 As government officials instituted mandatory stay-at-home orders and hospitals struggled to quickly implement distancing practices, NYC public hospital patients with SUD faced disrupted access to SUS. (springer.com)
  • Mergers and acquisitions are important tools that some hospitals use to manage financial pressures and increase access to care for patients. (aha.org)
  • Without mergers, some hospitals could shutter, patients could lose access to care and communities could suffer. (aha.org)
  • This is particularly important for rural hospitals, where mergers and acquisitions have played a critical role in preserving access to care for patients and communities. (aha.org)
  • Optimal hospital care includes serving plant-based foods to assist patients on their road to recovery while in the hospital and informing patients of the benefits of a plant-based diet beyond their hospital stay. (pressmediarelease.com)
  • In a hospital, the food provided to patients is a key part of their treatment. (pressmediarelease.com)
  • By adopting plant-based options and eliminating cancer-causing food products, hospitals not only provide a vital service to patients, staff, and visitors. (pressmediarelease.com)
  • Healthful diets may also play a role in the economics of medical care, particularly for heart patients. (pressmediarelease.com)
  • We evaluated the impact of Singapore's Medisave for Chronic Disease Management Program (CDMP) program for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients. (ajmc.com)
  • With concerns about overwhelming the healthcare system, and reducing the spread of the virus in hospitals, came a new focus on telehealth, or providing care remotely. (lark.com)
  • Post-pandemic hospitals and healthcare providers will undergo transformations in how they offer care on site and outside of traditional healthcare settings. (lark.com)
  • During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and other parts of the healthcare system had some major concerns. (lark.com)
  • Yakusheva led the design of the Healthcare Innovation and Impact Program (HiiP) at the School of Nursing and was appointment to the position of the first HiiP Director in September of 2019. (umich.edu)
  • Hospital mergers and acquisitions continue to garner intense scrutiny from lawmakers, with pressure likely to hold steady following the recent announcement of new antitrust guidelines and state and federal investigations into potential healthcare monopolies . (medscape.com)
  • While the impact of the latest guidelines is yet to be seen, concerns over healthcare market consolidation are not new. (medscape.com)
  • The "supply-driven" scenario assumes that providers have the biggest impact in reshaping the healthcare system, through more integrated and coordinated care. (strategy-business.com)
  • The solutions with the biggest impact come from areas outside the traditional healthcare industry, such as software, telecom, retail, and apparel companies. (strategy-business.com)
  • Home healthcare agencies and hospitals exchange very little clinical data online, according to a new report on home healthcare IT from KLAS, a research firm based in Orem, Utah. (informationweek.com)
  • Because of new Medicare rules penalizing them for readmissions, hospitals are increasingly interested in breaking down the walls that separate them from post-acute-care providers, including home healthcare agencies. (informationweek.com)
  • Vendors such as Allscripts, Cerner, McKesson, and Meditech offer home healthcare EHRs as part of their enterprise systems for hospitals. (informationweek.com)
  • Our analytic sample included 3078 acute care hospitals and 14,866 Medicare-certified SNFs in the United States, encompassing more than 47 million hospital discharges. (ajmc.com)
  • His work has shown that hospitals with better levels of nurse staffing are much less likely to be penalized under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. (upenn.edu)
  • In addition, a major source of financial pressure for hospitals are the costs of complying with a complex web of local, state and federal regulations, excessive commercial payer administrative requirements, and chronic underpayments by the Medicare and Medicaid programs. (aha.org)
  • Many fear the economics of the program will drive independent, community hospitals to join systems. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • Later, Bradley served as the principal investigator for the Ethiopian Hospital Management Initiative, a program run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to improve the functionality and quality of government hospitals in Ethiopia. (wikipedia.org)
  • The impact of an antibiotic restriction program (ARP) on the patterns of antibiotic use in the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) was examined. (nih.gov)
  • The ACA also introduced incentives for hospitals to reduce readmissions by imposing financial penalties for excess readmissions under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). (apstudybay.com)
  • The Georgia Board of Regents recently approved the reclassification of Georgia State University's M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from a social sciences program to one under the banner of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). (gsu.edu)
  • Over the course of the B.B.A. in Business Economics program, students study how decisions are made by private businesses, governments, and households in producing, consuming, and distributing goods. (gsu.edu)
  • This program is recommended if students are considering a graduate degree in economics or related areas in business. (gsu.edu)
  • Leveraging Georgia State University's internationally renowned economics faculty and research centers, the STEM-designated Master of Arts (M.A.) in Economics program at GSU's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies takes a pioneering approach to economics that emphasizes public policy and empirical evaluation. (gsu.edu)
  • 4 Among the initiatives supported by this funding was the launch of the "Consult for Addiction Treatment and Care in Hospitals (CATCH)" program, which now operates at six NYC public hospitals. (springer.com)
  • More research is needed to understand how hospitals are responding to bundled payment incentives and specific practices that contribute to improvements in cost and quality. (ajmc.com)
  • Research shows that using oral nutritional supplements can help reduce their length of stay and associated hospital costs. (kikaycorner.net)
  • Important consideration is the relatively low intervention cost compared to the reduction in costs related to readmissions for illnesses associated with continued smoking. (bmj.com)
  • Several studies have focused on the direct medical costs borne by the hospital or insurer, but to our knowledge, no study has assessed the full societal impact of SSIs, which includes indirect costs, such as lost patient productivity and diminished functional status ( 11 , 12 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Mergers with larger hospital systems can provide community hospitals the scale and resources needed to decrease costs by increasing administrative efficiencies and reducing redundant or duplicative services. (aha.org)
  • Our white paper explores the implications of these new recommendations and demonstrates the impact these have on patient safety, costs, workflow complexity and turnaround time. (ambuusa.com)
  • Hospitals participating in Medicare's Bundled Payments for Care Improvement model did not concentrate skilled nursing discharges among smaller groups of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). (ajmc.com)
  • In a statement to Congress , she said that hospital consolidation reduces options for employees, who fear 'being blacklisted from further hiring in a system that controls many of the hospitals in the area' and 'makes workers afraid to file complaints, organize their workplace, or leave before the end of a contract. (medscape.com)
  • ABSTRACT We assessed the economic impact of Joint Commission International hospital accreditation on 5 structural and outcome hospital performance measures in Jordan. (who.int)
  • We modelled the cost-effectiveness of the Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation (OMSC), an intervention that includes in-hospital counselling, pharmacotherapy and posthospital follow-up, compared to usual care among smokers hospitalised with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), unstable angina (UA), heart failure (HF), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). (bmj.com)
  • I study hospital responses using two separate difference-in-differences estimation strategies, exploiting, first, the difference in price changes across diagnoses, and secondly, the difference in bed capacity across hospitals. (bi.no)
  • The study also found readmissions were slightly up during strikes. (kare11.com)
  • Another metric featured in the study is hospital readmissions. (kare11.com)
  • The research was a large prospective observational study evaluating the association between nutritional status and readmission or death in medical inpatients ≥60 years old. (bmj.com)
  • a medical nutrition physician and Dr. Rodolfo Dimaano , Medical Director of Abbott Nutrition Philippines last week on a new study that demonstrates oral nutrition supplements are associated with significant reductions in length of hospital stay and cost. (kikaycorner.net)
  • Another study found that prices at monopoly hospitals are 12% higher than in markets with four or more rivals. (medscape.com)
  • A study has compared the impact of single-use and reusable flexible bronchsocopes. (ambuusa.com)
  • This study estimated the impact of SSOC laws on stroke outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • Objective: To study the profile and management of CNS malformation in a tertiary hospital. (bvsalud.org)
  • 2023: Cystine Stones: Developments in Minimally Invasive Surgery and Their Impact on Morbidity and Stone Clearance. (storzmedical.com)
  • We are the hospitals that are least able to effect change, and we're being asked to do the most," says Stephen Estes, of Rockcastle Regional Hospital and Respiratory Care Center. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • Leading to the conclusion that while replacement workers "do not significantly alter the finding of worsening outcomes during the strikes, they do not noticeably improve the quality of hospital care during a strike. (kare11.com)
  • InfoBionic is developing a spectrum of devices capable of dealing with cardiology problems from the simplest to the most complex to create the hospital experience in a virtual-care world. (infobionic.com)
  • What began as remote patient monitoring has been replaced by a powerful new model for virtual telemetry that enables high-integrity patient monitoring for a wide variety of virtual clinical use cases - from preventive care to advanced hospital-to-home scenarios. (infobionic.com)
  • This paper studies the impact of patient-generated ratings of primary care physicians in Norway. (bi.no)
  • Medication safety pharmacy technician in a large, tertiary care, community hospital. (ahrq.gov)
  • When hospital markets become less competitive, the cost of care often increases. (medscape.com)
  • Research has shown that rural hospitals are less likely to close after acquisition compared to independent hospitals and that mergers have improved access and quality of care for rural hospitals. (aha.org)
  • Hospital-initiated transitional care interventions as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review. (ahrq.gov)
  • This is the second part of a two-part series of discussions on the subject of Trump's election and its impact on medical care acts and payment systems. (medscape.com)
  • Unlike previous research on hospital competition that has relied on quality indicators for urgent treatments, we take advantage of a plausible absence of selection bias to identify the effect on the quality of elective procedures that should be more price responsive. (repec.org)
  • Mergers When Prices are Negotiated: Evidence from the Hospital Industry ," NBER Working Papers 18875, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (repec.org)
  • 4. To promote and enhance research in the demography and economics of aging at Stanford and in collaborating institutions. (stanford.edu)
  • Further research is needed to assess specific hospital responses to bundled payment and their impacts on cost and quality. (ajmc.com)
  • His research has influenced policy and practice nationally, particularly around nurse staffing legislation, Magnet hospital credentialing, and hospital performance monitoring. (upenn.edu)
  • Beyond Investing is a vegan investment platform comprising Beyond Investing, a US-based registered investment advisor, Beyond Advisors, a Jersey-based research firm, Beyond Impact Advisors a Swiss-based investment advisor and Beyond Animal a Swiss-based technology company. (pressmediarelease.com)
  • and Larry Abele, founder of Impact-Cubed, an FCA-regulated asset manager recognized for its leadership in ESG research and investing. (pressmediarelease.com)
  • Successful practices for reducing the spread of disease in hospitals may continue in the future. (lark.com)
  • Patient whiteboards as a communication tool in the hospital setting: A survey of practices and recommendations. (ahrq.gov)
  • Even cross-market mergers, when hospitals in different geographic locations combine, can drive prices higher. (medscape.com)
  • Hospital administrative overheads are far higher in the US than in other high-spending countries (Himmelstein et al. (who.int)
  • We also evaluated the association between the ARP and the length of hospital stay in regard to CAP treatment and cost savings associated with the implementation of the ARP. (nih.gov)
  • The difference between length of hospital stay and cost of treatment (including supplies, labor, depreciation of equipment, etc.) were measured. (kikaycorner.net)
  • The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals ," Review of Economic Studies , Oxford University Press, vol. 82(2), pages 457-489. (repec.org)
  • 2 Rigotti and colleagues recently updated a review and meta-analysis of studies examining the efficacy of hospital-initiated smoking cessation interventions. (bmj.com)
  • Implementing patient safety interventions in your hospital: what to try and what to avoid. (ahrq.gov)
  • Bridging the gap: a framework and strategies for integrating the quality and safety mission of teaching hospitals and graduate medical education. (ahrq.gov)
  • Readmissions meaning if a person were to be readmitted to the hospital for the same problem within 30 days. (kare11.com)
  • In the first year, we calculated that provision of the OMSC to 15 326 smokers would generate 4689 quitters, and would prevent 116 rehospitalisations, 923 hospital days, and 119 deaths. (bmj.com)
  • Results From the hospital payer's perspective, delivery of the OMSC can be considered cost effective with 1-year cost per QALY gained of $C1386, and lifetime cost per QALY gained of $C68. (bmj.com)
  • Discussion The OMSC appears to be cost-effective from the hospital payer perspective. (bmj.com)
  • However, the optimal LOS to prevent readmissions is not well established. (apstudybay.com)
  • An undergraduate degree in economics prepares students with the quantitative and qualitative skills to think critically and learn how to make optimal decisions. (gsu.edu)
  • Equipment was in short supply, and many providers left their regular posts and did rounds on COVID-19 floors or in hospitals within COVID-19 hotspots to lend a hand. (lark.com)
  • Inability of providers to predict unplanned readmissions. (ahrq.gov)
  • Other studies have suggested that longer LOS may increase the risk of readmission by disrupting the patient's social and environmental support systems or exposing them to nosocomial infections or adverse events [7]. (apstudybay.com)
  • They did not find any association between LOS and readmission risk. (apstudybay.com)
  • In the Lifespan merger that fell through, Boudreault told Medscape Medical News that the newly created hospital system would have employed two thirds of Rhode Island's full-time nurses, limiting opportunities for local employment elsewhere. (medscape.com)