Reduce COPD Readmissions with These Proven Strategies

This blog post will discuss well-researched strategies for reducing COPD readmissions and improving patient outcomes.

Preventing COPD Readmissions Under the Hospital Readmissions ...

Bundled care interventions using the electronic health record and patient education interventions for inhaler education have been shown to reduce readmissions, ...

Reducing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Hospital ...

The introduction of the care manager was associated with a 1-year decline in readmissions after a COPD exacerbation from 12% to 6.7%. The health system's other ...

At-Home Interventions Significantly Cut Readmission Rates in ...

The investigators said the ideal situation for patients with COPD is to have “uninterrupted” patient care regardless of the setting.

Reducing Hospital Readmissions: 5 Strategies - Guideway Care

Guideway's Care Guidance services have been proven to reduce readmissions, including 31% reductions in CHF readmissions and 41% reductions in COPD readmissions.

Reducing Readmissions for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ...

Although hospitalizations are necessary in <10% of patients with COPD exacerbations, they disproportionately account for 65% of the healthcare ...

Guide for Reducing Disparities in Readmissions - CMS

Throughout the Guide, key issues, strategies, and implementation examples are provided to guide organizations along their path to advancing health equity in the ...

Predicting and preventing hospital readmission for exacerbations of ...

A Cochrane review showed that pulmonary rehabilitation following COPD exacerbation was associated with a significant reduction in the risk of hospital ...

COPD Readmission: The Missing Link

To reduce COPD readmissions, importance should be on the well-established grade-A evidence of tobacco smoking treatment on COPD and overall ...

Survey of COPD Readmission Prevention Practices and Related ...

Results: The response rate was 37% (n=20), however many questions only had 17 responses. Common tactics to reduce COPD readmissions included ...

10 Approaches to Reduce Readmissions for Heart Failure and COPD

Patients with both heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have a high cost of care, but there are multiple strategies to limit ...

Reducing COPD readmissions—a personal and political priority

Under the programme, hospitals could incur penalties for patients readmitted within 30 days. These proposals are similar to ones already in place in the UK ...

Reducing Readmissions for Patients with Heart Failure and COPD

During the 8-week HF pilot on E7N, the 30d readmission rate decreased from 21.6% to 12.9%., with most reduction seen in the 7-10d readmission ...

Reducing 30-Day Readmission Rates in Chronic Obstructive ...

By identifying EBP strategies proven to be effective in reducing readmission rates, providers can then target these practices to use to develop guidance for the.

Hospital Readmissions for COPD: We Can Meet the Challenge

The COPD Foundation is developing a learning collaboratory to share best practices and to develop multicenter studies to determine what measures can prevent ...

Prevention of COPD Readmissions: A Work in Progress

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program was enacted to reduce rising costs of health care for Medicare beneficiaries due to readmissions for ...

Reducing COPD Readmissions - CHEST Journal

14 Thus, in planning a discharge strategy, arranging to see a patient 2 weeks postdischarge may fail by missing those most at risk. The article by Jennings et ...

Reducing the Readmission Burden of COPD: A Focused Review of ...

Patients with more severe disease and fewer social supports are most vulnerable to COPD readmission. Chronic treatment with combined inhaled ...

Mortality and Readmissions for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary ...

Rationale: Implementation of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) following discharge of patients with chronic obstructive ...

Preventing AECOPD Readmissions Despite Social Risk Factors

A COPD readmission reduction initiative was implemented in September 2014 at Danbury Hospital, a community teaching hospital in Connecticut. The program was ...