Predicting Hospital Readmissions from Home Healthcare in Medicare Beneficiaries

Addressing Medicare Hospital Readmissions

Predicting unplanned hospital readmissions

The number of unplanned readmissions is an important quality improvement indicator for Australian hospitals, as it has a direct impact on costs and patient outcomes. It is a useful indicator for patient multi-morbidity to identify patients that should potentially have different treatment or discharge plans. The objective of the Health Insights Challenge project was to develop a predictive model...

Mortality, Hospital Costs, Payments, and Readmissions Associated With Clostridium difficile Infection Among Medicare Beneficiaries

BACKGROUND The management of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) among hospitalized patients is costly, and ongoing payment reform is compelling hospitals to reduce its burden. To assess the impact of CDI on mortality, hospital costs, healthcare use, and Medicare payments for beneficiaries who were discharged with CDI listed as a secondary International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revis...

Parkinson's Disease and Home Healthcare Use and Expenditures among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries

This study estimated excess home healthcare use and expenditures among elderly Medicare beneficiaries (age ≥ 65 years) with Parkinson's disease (PD) compared to those without PD and analyzed the extent to which predisposing, enabling, need factors, personal health choice, and external environment contribute to the excess home healthcare use and expenditures among individuals with PD. A retrospe...

The Medical Home and Hospital Readmissions.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Despite considerable attention, little is known about the degree to which primary care medical homes influence early postdischarge utilization. We sought to test the hypothesis that patients with medical homes are less likely to have early postdischarge hospital or emergency department (ED) encounters. METHODS This prospective cohort study enrolled randomly selected p...