Advice Columns from Dr. Carolyn Clancy

April 9 2013 20130409

Health Law at Three Years Highlights Coverage, Cost, and Quality Improvements

September 4 2012 20120904

Helping You Avoid Return Trips to the Hospital

Clinicians & Providers

• Interventions to Reduce 30-day Rehospitalization: A Systematic Review
• Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit

Hospital & Health System Resources

• Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit

Other Research & Data

• Interventions to Reduce 30-day Rehospitalization: A Systematic Review
• Language barriers related to increased hospital readmissions for Chinese- and Spanish-speaking patients

Advice Columns from Dr. Carolyn Clancy

April 9 2013 20130409

Health Law at Three Years Highlights Coverage, Cost, and Quality Improvements

September 4 2012 20120904

Helping You Avoid Return Trips to the Hospital

Other News & Events

• AHRQ Patient Safety Project Reduces Bloodstream Infections by 40 Percent
• AHRQ Toolkit Can Help Hospitals Lower Preventable Readmissions
• Bundled payments for heart failure disease management programs can save money while reducing readmissions
• Early followup with a physician reduces readmissions for Medicare patients hospitalized for heart failure
• For 1 in 10 Medicaid patients, it's back to the hospital in a month
• Language barriers related to increased hospital readmissions for Chinese- and Spanish-speaking patients
• Patients who undergo knee ligament reconstruction do better when the doctor or hospital perform it frequently
• Readmissions in 30 days or less account for 1 in 9 hospital admissions
• Report Finds Off-Label Use of Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs Not Supported By Evidence for Some Conditions
• Study Finds Consumers Choose High-Value Health Care Providers When Given Good Cost and Quality Information
• Study questions usefulness of hospital readmission rates as marker of care quality for pediatric sickle cell disease
• Study reveals patterns of readmissions to the intensive care unit