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Modeling Heart Failure Predictive Mortality In Skilled Nursing Facilities, Stephen Charles Biondi
Modeling Heart Failure Predictive Mortality In Skilled Nursing Facilities, Stephen Charles Biondi
Dissertations (1934 -)
Problem: Approximately 25% of skilled nursing facility (SNF) patients are diagnosed with heart failure (HF). The heart failure mortality trajectory is non-linear and there are no useable mortality models from clinical records for use by healthcare providers in the SNF setting. A mortality risk model for patients with HF is important so that palliative care interventions may be offered to improve patients’ quality of life during the end stages of dying. Assessment items captured routinely by the SNF Resident Assessment Instrument –Minimum Data Set 3.0 (RAI-MDS) instrument may be useful in identifying those patients whose declining condition warrants discussion of …
Relationship Of Exposure To Heart Failure Discharge Teaching To Readmission Within 30 Days, Becky Ann Pogacar
Relationship Of Exposure To Heart Failure Discharge Teaching To Readmission Within 30 Days, Becky Ann Pogacar
Dissertations (1934 -)
Heart Failure (HF) patients are at increased risk for higher rates of hospital readmission within 30 days. Previous studies have demonstrated educational interventions delivered by nurses reduce readmission but the relationship of the dose of teaching to HF readmission or ED utilization remains unclear. A retrospective correlational design framed by the General Outcomes Effectiveness Model was utilized to (1) establish a relationship between the dose of discharge teaching documented by acute care nurses and the outcomes of hospital readmission and ED utilization within 30 days of a previous hospital discharge and (2) identify the teaching components included in an evidence-based …