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  2. Oct 21, 2014 · Discharge planning and involvement of a home-care transition coach — either a nurse or social worker — has been shown to facilitate implementation of the patient’s recovery goals in the community and reduce the risk of recurrent admissions, as well as being cost-effective compared with usual care.8 Disappointingly, the interventions ...

    • Cara Tannenbaum
    • 2014
  3. May 13, 2020 · The revolving door of readmissions keeps spinning for patients who report symptoms of shortness of breath and cough. Many variables affect hospital readmissions.

  4. Literature review indicates that patients at higher risk for revolving-door phenomenon are more likely to be younger, single males, with a diagnosis of a psychotic illness and high number of previous admissions.

    • P. Garrido, C.B. Saraiva
    • 2012
  5. Session Objectives. Understand the benefits from hospital and primary care perspectives of working together to address hospital readmissions versus working in silos. Explain how care transitions impact avoidable and unavoidable readmissions for populations at risk. Understand why COPD /CHF populations were targeted.

  6. May 11, 2015 · How nurses can help reduce hospital readmissions. For too many patients, the hospital door is a revolving one. About 20% of Medi­care patients leave the hospital only to be readmitted within 30 days. Failure to create standard discharge processes, adequately prepare patients and family caregivers for discharge, educate patients about ...

  7. Apr 4, 2023 · This study assessed changes in revolving-door (RD) mental health hospitalizations during the COVID-19 pandemic. A 5-year retrospective hospital chart review was performed, collecting revolving-door hospitalization, sociodemographic, and clinical data.