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Reducing Readmission Rates In Acute Pancreatitis Through Patient Education And Risk Assessment, Jordan T. Vulcano
Reducing Readmission Rates In Acute Pancreatitis Through Patient Education And Risk Assessment, Jordan T. Vulcano
Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews
Background: Early hospital readmissions are a direct burden on both our patients’ well-being and health care system as a whole. Acute pancreatitis is a top offender, with countless 30-day readmissions. Studies have showed a consistently higher than average 30-day readmission rates in acute pancreatitis, around 19%. This is significantly higher than the average all-cause readmission rate at Aurora Health Care hospitals. This quality improvement project aimed to reduce the rate of acute pancreatitis 30-day readmission rates at several Aurora hospitals through patient education and a readmission risk assessment tool.
Purpose: To clarify some of the risk factors associated with acute …
Reframing The Work On Patient Experience Improvement, Jocelyn Cornwell
Reframing The Work On Patient Experience Improvement, Jocelyn Cornwell
Patient Experience Journal
In reframing the work on patient experience improvement Dr. Jocelyn Cornwell, chief executive of The Point of Care Foundation, challenges us to broaden our view on what is necessary to impact patient experience efforts. From a defined need to reduce avoidable suffering associated with health care delivery dysfunction, she suggests we extend the discussion in two ways: First, to include a concern for staff engagement, experience and well-being, and second, to position patient experience improvement as one type of quality improvement (QI) in healthcare, and urge practitioners to pay more attention to the lessons from QI in other domains. High …
The Design And Implementation Of A Relationship-Based Care Delivery Model On A Medical- Surgical Unit, Paula Ann Rodney
The Design And Implementation Of A Relationship-Based Care Delivery Model On A Medical- Surgical Unit, Paula Ann Rodney
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The Design and Implementation of a Relationship-Based Care Delivery Model on a Medical- Surgical Unit
by
Paula A. Rodney
MSN, California University of Pennsylvania, 2011
BSN, University of Virginia, 1979
Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Doctor of Nursing Practice
Walden University
April 2015
Patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes have become important issues in healthcare since the introduction of the Value Based Purchasing Program. Patient satisfaction, as measured by Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey, was declining and hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPU), falls, and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) were …