Title: Factors of readmissions and reducing unnecessary readmissions to provide a better health care service.
Thesis: The health care organizations have big opportunity to improve their quality of healthcare as well as improve life quality of customers through reducing the avoidable readmissions.
I. Introduction
Thesis: The health care organizations have big opportunity to improve their quality of healthcare as well as improve life quality of customers through reducing the avoidable readmissions.
II. Describe different types of readmissions and their main reasons. Who comes back to the hospital?
a. Planned and unplanned readmissions, especially in Medicare patients.
b. Whether the readmissions are associated with their initial diagnoses and treatments or not. If yes, how many percentages that would be?
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Discuss an argument that why the patients come back to the hospital.
a. What are the factors between the quality of health cares and readmissions? How the discharge procedure improvement would affect to the reduction of readmission.
b. Perhaps people who have a really severe medical condition are survived when they readmitted within 30 days of last discharge. On the other hand, initial treatment and diagnostic service were inappropriate and insufficient then people readmitted. Which one is necessary or unnecessary (avoidable) readmissions and how to define them.
c. Describe socio-economic factors of readmissions.
IV. Discuss some arguments that do responding activities work to reduce unnecessary readmissions?
a. What kinds of activities are ongoing to reduce it? (Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, Affordable Care Act etc)
b. What are the main effects of reducing readmissions to the health care industry? (financial effects, patient-centered health care improvements, for instance, online home care after discharge, increasing quality of life of
Thesis: The health care organizations have big opportunity to improve their quality of healthcare as well as improve life quality of customers through reducing the avoidable readmissions.
I. Introduction
Thesis: The health care organizations have big opportunity to improve their quality of healthcare as well as improve life quality of customers through reducing the avoidable readmissions.
II. Describe different types of readmissions and their main reasons. Who comes back to the hospital?
a. Planned and unplanned readmissions, especially in Medicare patients.
b. Whether the readmissions are associated with their initial diagnoses and treatments or not. If yes, how many percentages that would be?
III. …show more content…
Discuss an argument that why the patients come back to the hospital.
a. What are the factors between the quality of health cares and readmissions? How the discharge procedure improvement would affect to the reduction of readmission.
b. Perhaps people who have a really severe medical condition are survived when they readmitted within 30 days of last discharge. On the other hand, initial treatment and diagnostic service were inappropriate and insufficient then people readmitted. Which one is necessary or unnecessary (avoidable) readmissions and how to define them.
c. Describe socio-economic factors of readmissions.
IV. Discuss some arguments that do responding activities work to reduce unnecessary readmissions?
a. What kinds of activities are ongoing to reduce it? (Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, Affordable Care Act etc)
b. What are the main effects of reducing readmissions to the health care industry? (financial effects, patient-centered health care improvements, for instance, online home care after discharge, increasing quality of life of