2023 MAR 06 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily-- Investigators publish new report on Managed Care. According to news reporting originating in San Antonio, ...

A new Yale study finds an increased risk of hospital readmission for older Americans within 180 days of undergoing major surgery—a risk that is particularly acute for individuals who are frail or have ...

Hospitals continue to be penalized for readmissions. But should we look at the size of the penalty, or the rate of improvement? More importantly, do readmission penalties improve care? Let's find out.

Readily available electronic health record (EHR) data can be used to reliably identify readmission risk for children of all ages while they are still in the hospital, according to a new study. The ...

This analysis of Medicare data examines the relationships between fragmented readmission, health information exchange, and repeat imaging in older adults with and without Alzheimer disease. Objectives ...

Recent reductions in hospital readmission rates have been attributed to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. However, admission rates also declined during the same period. We found that ...

Understanding readmissions within the Military Health System (MHS) provides important insights to better understand and improve health outcomes for military personnel and their families. We assessed ...

Elderly Medicare black patients have a higher 30-day hospital readmission rate for several conditions including congestive heart failure and pneumonia compared to white patients, that is related in ...

Federal programs designed to cut costs and improve health by penalizing doctors and hospitals are failing at an alarming rate. Some of them actually harm patients, and many don’t cut costs. One in ...

During the American Society of Hematology’s Annual Meeting in December 2018, real-world data were presented showing the significant burden of hospital readmissions for venous thromboembolism (VTE) ...

A new report [PDF] from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) finds that among patients who acquired a healthcare-associated infection (HAI) in 2010, nearly 42% were readmitted ...

Hospital readmissions for asthma are increasing among children, according to a new study, highlighting the gaps in health care for the most common chronic pediatric illness. Hospital readmissions for ...