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Heart Failure |
74% |
Reduction in readmissions in less than 31 days post discharge |
Nationally recognized “Heart 100” hospital 400-bed, close-in suburb of Chicago, IL |
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100% |
Reduction in returns to the ER in less than 31 days post discharge |
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8 hour |
reduction in length of stay on readmit |
| ANNUAL PROJECTIONS |
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Control group = 394 |
23.35% |
readmission rate |
92 |
readmissions per year |
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3.30% |
return to the ER |
13 |
returns to the ER per year |
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|
6.86 |
days LOS on readmit |
6.86 |
days LOS on readmit |
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Care Kit group = 31 |
8.7% |
readmission rate |
34 |
readmissions per year |
|
0% |
returns to the ER |
0 |
returns to the ER |
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|
6.50 |
days LOS on readmit |
6.50 |
days LOS on readmit |
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Control Group is retrospective data, 2001. Care Kit Group is one quarter, 2002. Selection criteria: patients discharged to home or home care weighing 300 pounds or less. Data collected from medical records. Readmission DRGs include 014, 015, 023, 073, 079, 088, 099, 090, 107, 115, 116, 120, 121, 124, 128, 130, 138, 141, 143, 145, 182, 183, 294, 296, 316, 403, and 468. |
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HIGHLIGHTS: Patients may be readmitted with CHF symptoms and be treated as CHF patients, but get a code that is different than DRG 127. For the first time, this hospital looked at all CHF-related readmissions and discovered that the readmission rate was much higher than the rate for 127 alone. |