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IMPORTANCE: Feasibility, effectiveness, and sustainability of large-scale readmission reduction efforts are uncertain. The Greater New Haven Coalition for Safe Transitions and Readmission Reductions was funded by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce readmissions among all discharged Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) patients. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether overall Medicare FFS readmissions were reduced through an intervention applied to high-risk discharge patients. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This quasi-experimental evaluation took place at an urban academic medical center. Target discharge patients were older than 64 years with Medicare FFS insurance, residing in nearby zip codes, and discharged alive to home or facility and not against medical advice or to hospice; control discharge patients were older than 54 years with the same zip codes and discharge disposition but without Medicare FFS insurance if older than 64 years. High-risk target discharge patients were selectively enrolled in the program. INTERVENTIONS: Personalized transitional care, including education, medication reconciliation, follow-up telephone calls, and linkage to community resources. MEASUREMENTS: We measured the 30-day unplanned same-hospital readmission rates in the baseline period (May 1, 2011, through April 30, 2012) and intervention period (October 1, 2012, through May 31, 2014). RESULTS: We enrolled 10â¯621 (58.3%) of 18â¯223 target discharge patients (73.9% of discharge patients screened as high risk) and included all target discharge patients in the analysis. The mean (SD) age of the target discharge patients was 79.7 (8.8) years. The adjusted readmission rate decreased from 21.5% to 19.5% in the target population and from 21.1% to 21.0% in the control population, a relative reduction of 9.3%. The number needed to treat to avoid 1 readmission was 50. In a difference-in-differences analysis using a logistic regression model, the odds of readmission in the target population decreased significantly more than that of the control population in the intervention period (odds ratio, 0.90; 95% CI, 0.83-0.99; P = .03). In a comparative interrupted time series analysis of the difference in monthly adjusted admission rates, the target population decreased an absolute -3.09 (95% CI, -6.47 to 0.29; P = .07) relative to the control population, a similar but nonsignificant effect. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: This large-scale readmission reduction program reduced readmissions by 9.3% among the full population targeted by the CMS despite being delivered only to high-risk patients. However, it did not achieve the goal reduction set by the CMS.
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Medicaid/estatística & dados numéricos , Medicare/estatística & dados numéricos , Reconciliação de Medicamentos/estatística & dados numéricos , Alta do Paciente/estatística & dados numéricos , Readmissão do Paciente/estatística & dados numéricos , População Urbana/estatística & dados numéricos , Centros Médicos Acadêmicos , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Estudos de Viabilidade , Feminino , Seguimentos , Humanos , Masculino , Educação de Pacientes como Assunto , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Estados UnidosRESUMO
We report the results of a subgroup analysis of the Benefits of Universal Glove and Gown trial. In 20 intensive care units, the reduction in acquisition of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus observed in this trial was observed in units also using chlorhexidine bathing and in those that previously performed active surveillance.
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Banhos/métodos , Clorexidina/uso terapêutico , Infecção Hospitalar , Infecções por Bactérias Gram-Positivas , Controle de Infecções , Staphylococcus aureus Resistente à Meticilina , Roupa de Proteção , Enterococos Resistentes à Vancomicina , Infecção Hospitalar/microbiologia , Infecção Hospitalar/prevenção & controle , Desinfetantes/uso terapêutico , Infecções por Bactérias Gram-Positivas/microbiologia , Infecções por Bactérias Gram-Positivas/prevenção & controle , Humanos , Controle de Infecções/métodos , Controle de Infecções/estatística & dados numéricos , Unidades de Terapia Intensiva/estatística & dados numéricos , Staphylococcus aureus Resistente à Meticilina/efeitos dos fármacos , Staphylococcus aureus Resistente à Meticilina/isolamento & purificação , Avaliação de Resultados em Cuidados de Saúde , Enterococos Resistentes à Vancomicina/efeitos dos fármacos , Enterococos Resistentes à Vancomicina/isolamento & purificaçãoRESUMO
Growing evidence reveals the importance of improving safety culture in efforts to eliminate health care-associated infections. This multisite, cross-sectional survey examined the association between professional role and health care experience on infection prevention safety culture at 5 hospitals. The findings suggest that frontline health care technicians are less directly engaged in improvement efforts and safety education than other staff and that infection prevention safety culture varies more by hospital than by staff position and experience.
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Atitude do Pessoal de Saúde , Infecção Hospitalar/prevenção & controle , Controle de Infecções/métodos , Corpo Clínico Hospitalar/organização & administração , Cultura Organizacional , Papel Profissional , Gestão da Segurança/métodos , Estudos Transversais , Humanos , Corpo Clínico Hospitalar/psicologia , Estados UnidosRESUMO
This study determined the survivability of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) for extended periods of time and temperatures using a standard swab for assessment. Our study showed that transportation in Liquid Amies medium could be performed at room temperature or 4°C for up to 14 days without a decrease in recovery of MRSA or VRE.
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Técnicas Bacteriológicas/métodos , Enterococcus/fisiologia , Infecções por Bactérias Gram-Positivas/diagnóstico , Staphylococcus aureus Resistente à Meticilina/fisiologia , Viabilidade Microbiana , Manejo de Espécimes/métodos , Resistência a Vancomicina , Meios de Cultura/química , Enterococcus/efeitos dos fármacos , Enterococcus/isolamento & purificação , Enterococcus/efeitos da radiação , Infecções por Bactérias Gram-Positivas/microbiologia , Humanos , Staphylococcus aureus Resistente à Meticilina/isolamento & purificação , Staphylococcus aureus Resistente à Meticilina/efeitos da radiação , Temperatura , Fatores de TempoRESUMO
A Web-based training course with embedded video clips for reducing central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) was evaluated and shown to improve clinician knowledge and retention of knowledge over time. To our knowledge, this is the first study to evaluate Web-based CLABSI training as a stand-alone intervention.