Selected publications from research organizations and the professional literature related to performance measurement and improvement.
Adequacy of Hospital Discharge Summaries in Documenting Tests with Pending Results and Outpatient Follow-up Providers
M. C. Were, X. Li, J. Kesterson et al.
Journal of General Internal Medicine, September 2009 24(9):1002–06.
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All-Cause Hospital Readmissions Among Non-Elderly Medicaid Patients, 2007
H. J. Jiang and L. M. Wier
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Statistical Brief #89, April 2010, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Could Medicare Readmission Policy Exacerbate Health Care System Inequity?
R. Bhalla and G. Kalkut
Annals of Internal Medicine, January 19, 2010 vol. 152 no. 2 114-117
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Discharge Planning from Hospital to Home
S. Shepperd, J. McClaran, C. O. Phillips et al.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010, Issue 1.
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Do Patient Safety Events Increase Readmissions?
B. Friedman, W. Encinosa, H. J. Jiang et al.
Medical Care, May 2009 47(5):583–90
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Groups Try Simple Steps to Avoid Hospital Rebound
Homeward Bound--Nine Patient-Centered Programs Cut Readmissions
S. Baird Kanaan
California Healthcare Foundation, September 2009
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Impact of a National Campaign on Hospital Readmissions in Home Care Patients
C. P. Schade, E. Esslinger, D.Anderson et al.
International Journal of Quality in Health Care, June 2009 21(3):176-82
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Impact of a Pharmacist-Facilitated Hospital Discharge Program --A Quasi-Experimental Study
P. C. Walker, S. J. Bernstein, J. N. Tucker Jones et al.
Archives of Intern Medicine, 2009 169(21):2003-2010.
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Is Same-Hospital Readmission Rate a Good Surrogate for All-Hospital Readmission Rate?
K. Nasir, Z. Lin, H. Bueno et al.
Medical Care, May 2010 48(5):477-81.
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Leveraging Healthcare Policy Changes to Decrease Hospital 30-Day Readmission Rates
Nurse and Patient Perceptions of Discharge Readiness in Relation to Postdischarge Utilization
M. Weiss, O. Yakusheva, and K. Bobay
Medical Care, May 2010 48(5): 482-6
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Preventing Readmissions with Improved Hospital Discharge Planning
A. K. Jha, E. J. Orav, and A. M. Epstein
New England Journal of Medicine, Dec. 31, 2009 361(27):2637–2645
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Public Reporting of Discharge Planning and Rates of Readmissions
A.K. Jha, E.J. Orav, and A.M. Epstein
New England Journal of Medicine, December 2009 351(27): 2637-45
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Quality's New Frontier--Reducing Hospitalizations and Improving Transitions in Long-Term Care
D. J. Lipson and S. Simon
Mathematica Policy Research, March 2010
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Recent National Trends in Readmission Rates After Heart Failure Hospitalization
J. S. Ross1, J. Chen, Z. Qiu Lin et al.
Circulation: Heart Failure, November 10, 2009
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Rehospitalization from Skilled Nursing Facilities--Implications for Policy
Vincent Mor
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization, February 2010
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The Hospital Cost of Care, Quality of Care, and Readmission Rates
Penny-Wise and Pound-Foolish
L. M. Chen, A. K. Jha, S. Guterman et al.
Archives of Internal Medicine, Feb. 22, 2010 170(4):340-346.
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The Paradox of Readmission--Effect of a Quality Improvement Program in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure
A. Mudge, C. Denaro, I. Scott et al.
Journal of Hospital Medicine, March. 2010 5(3):148-53.
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