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Assessing Prevalence Of Known Risk Factors In A Regional Central Kentucky Medical Center Heart Failure Population As An Approach To Assessment Of Needs For Development Of A Program To Provide Targeted Services To Reduce 30 Day Readmissions, Christeen Ivy Broaddus
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Abstract
Objectives:
- Determine demographic, physiologic, and laboratory characteristics at time of admission of the heart failure (HF) population in a regional acute care facility in Central Kentucky through review of patient electronic medical records.
- Determine which HF population characteristics are significantly associated with readmissions to the hospital.
- Provide identification of the statistically significant common characteristics of the HF population to this facility so that they may work towards development of an electronic risk for readmission predictive instrument.
Design: Retrospective chart review.
Setting: Regional acute care facility in Central Kentucky.
Participants: All patients (n = 175) with a diagnosis or history …