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1 to 2 of 2 Research Studies DisplayedWang Y, Pandolfi MM, Fine J
Community level association between home health and nursing home performance on quality and hospital 30-day readmissions for Medicare patients.
Using CMS data from 2010 to 2012, the researchers evaluated whether community-level home health agencies and nursing home performance is associated with community-level hospital 30-day all-cause risk-standardized readmission rates for Medicare patients. They found that increasing nursing home performance by one star for all of its 4 measures and home health performance by 10 points for all of its 6 measures is associated with decreases in community-level risk-standardized readmission rates.
AHRQ-funded; HS023000.
Citation: Wang Y, Pandolfi MM, Fine J .
Community level association between home health and nursing home performance on quality and hospital 30-day readmissions for Medicare patients.
Home Health Care Manag Pract 2016 Nov;28(4):201-08. doi: 10.1177/1084822316639032.
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Keywords: Quality of Care, Hospital Readmissions, Home Healthcare, Nursing Homes, Provider Performance
Driessen J, Bonhomme A, Chang W
Nursing home provider perceptions of telemedicine for reducing potentially avoidable hospitalizations.
The goal of this study was to survey a nationally representative sample of nursing home physicians and advanced practice providers to quantify provider perceptions and desired functionality of telemedicine in nursing homes to reduce potentially avoidable hospitalizations. The authors found that there is a high degree of confidence in the potential for a telemedicine solution and concrete views about its features, concluding that further research is needed to study the impact of successful implementations.
AHRQ-funded; HS018721; HS022989; HS022465; HS023779.
Citation: Driessen J, Bonhomme A, Chang W .
Nursing home provider perceptions of telemedicine for reducing potentially avoidable hospitalizations.
J Am Med Dir Assoc 2016 Jun;17(6):519-24. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2016.02.004.
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Keywords: Health Information Technology (HIT), Hospital Readmissions, Hospitalization, Nursing Homes, Telehealth