A new study calls for updating the tools used to assess hospital readmission risk for skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents. One of the measurements used to assess a SNF’s quality of care is how ...
The “LACE index,” a tool physicians and nurses often use to determine hospital patients’ readmission risk, may have a blind spot, according to new research from Morgantown-based West Virginia ...
National University of Singapore-based researchers developed a web-based tool that can predict 15-day readmission risk for patients. The researchers published the details regarding the development and ...
OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to ...